CONTENTS. ni 



FIELD CROPS. 



Page. 



Af^riculture. Somerville 429 



The key to t^uccessful farming, Kasmeier 429 



Parsons on d ry larniing, Parsons 430 



Handbook of breeding of agricultural plants, Fruwirth 430 



Work of Belle Fourche experiment farm in 1913, Anne 430 



Forage crops. Parsons 430 



[Field crops work at Canadian stations and farms in 191 2], Grisdalc ot al 431 



Cooperative experimental work witli winter cover crops, Tarbox, jr 431 



Development of tlie culms of grasses. Hole 432 



Composition and quality of wheat gi'owu in mixtures with oats, Bailey 432 



Protein in nonlegumes and legumes alone and in mixtures, Westgate and Oakley 432 



The cultivation of legumes, Fruwirth 432 



Culture experiments with bacterial inoculations of lupine and alfalfa, Barthel . . . 433 



A Btatistical study of barley at the Dickinson (N. Dak.) substation, Clark 433 



Notes on the selection of maize at Cambodia, de Flacourt 433 



Detasseling of maize Giant of Servia, Heckel 434 



Results with fertilizers for maize, Calvino 434 



Practical maize production, Matenaers 434 



Single-stalk cotton culture, Cook 434 



Cotton, its origin, uses, history, and importance, Steuckart 434 



Cost of producing cotton, Murray 434 



The cotton crop surplus, Andrews 435 



The cooperative marketing of cotton 435 



Guinea corn, Miller 435 



Influence of potash on rape, Lonsdale 435 



Report of progress in sugar-beet trials, luce 435 



Field annual for sugar-beet gi-owers, Adams 436 



[Manurial and variety experiments with sugar canes], Bovell and d' Albuquerque 436 



Identification of the seeds of species of Agropyron, Dahlberg 436 



Identification of plants, Fyles 436 



HORTICULTURE. 



Encyclopedia of practical horticulture, edited by Lowther and Worthington. . 436 



Horticulture in New Zealand, Taylor 437 



Studies on the rest period of woody plants, von Portheim and Kiihn 437 



[Horticultural work at Canadian experiment stations and farms], Macoun et al. 437 



[Report on] garden vegetables, Aune 438 



Relative production of apple varieties, Andrews 438 



Improvement of citrus fruits by bud selection, Shamel 439 



Improvement of fruits by bud selection, Scott 439 



Cold storage for tropical fruits, Wilcox and Hunn , 439 



Further researches on some statistics of Coffea,Van der Wolk 440 



Chinese trees and shrubs. Bean 440 



History of the garden pink, Kronfeld 440 



FORESTRY. 



Sixth annual report on forestry operations, Secrest 440 



flleport on] tree planting, Aune 440 



Report on forestry, Wehlburg 441 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Report of the division of botany, Giissow and Eastham 44I 



Rei)ort from the branch laboratory of the division of botany, McCubbin 441 



[Plant diseases in Mauritius], Stockdale 441 



Recent advances in our knowledge of the genus Phytophthora, Pethybridge. . 442 



Stiidies in North American Peronosporales, Wilson 442 



Conidium production in Penicillium, Thom 442 



A cancer of plants, R6gamey 442 



Oat sickness in sandy and clayey soils, Hudig 442 



Clover and lucern leaf spot, Massee 443 



A fungus disease of berseem, Chrestian and Maire 443 



