CONTENTS. ni 



FIELD CUOPS. 



Page. 



Summary of [field crops experiments in Alaska], Georgeson 35 



Report of [field crops] work at Fairbanks Station, Neal 36 



Report of [field crops] work at Rampart Station, Gasser 36 



Report of [field crop.s] work at Kodiak Station, Snodgrass 36 



Production of crops on alkali laud on Huntley project, Hansen 36 



Exi)erinients with crops under fall irrigation at Scottsbluff farm, Knorr 36 



[Field crop experiments], Allan, Clouston, and Evans 37 



Report on variety tests, 1913. Merkel 37 



The cultivated root-producing aroids, Quisumbing 37 



Industrial fiber plants of the Philippines, MuUer 37 



A list of grasses from Ahmadabad and Surat, Sedgwick 37 



Culture of meadows on moor soils, Oehme 38 



Moisture as a factor of error in determining forage yields, McKee 38 



Commercial Turkestan alfalfa seed. Brown 38 



Distinctions in cultivated barleys with reference to breeding, Harlan 38 



[Analyses of locally grown cassava], Camus 40 



Some principles of genetics applied to cotton production, Ti'abut 40 



Kafir, Helder 40 



Relation of yield of straw and grain in oats. Love 40 



Report of the potato cultural experiments for 1912, Toch 41 



The cultivation of rice in Spain, Tarchetti 41 



Field experiments covering 1913, De Jong 41 



Weight and sugar of beets in relation to area at each plant. Pellet 41 



Determination of ripeness in Pundia cane, Padhye 41 



Growing sugar cane for market, Paranjpye 41 



Spanish sulla [soola]. — Tested at Ruakura farm of instruction. Green 41 



The sweet potato: How to grow and keep it, Nordin 41 



The chemical composition of Philippine sweet potatoes, Labayen 41 



Lax and dense-eared wheats, Parker 42 



Effect of rate of seeding on competition in wheat varieties, Grantham 42 



Wheat. — Raising, marketing, handling, and use, Ten Eyck 42 



Value of biological method of determining A-arieties of seeds, Cauda 42 



Zellers' barley and ear corn table for wagonloads, Zellers 42 



HORTICULTURE. 



The killing of plant tissue by low temperature. Chandler 42 



Multiplicity of crops as a means of increasing future food supply, Hedrick_ 45 



[Horticultural investigations in Alaska], Georgeson et al 45 



Oi^erating costs of a well-established New York apple orchard, Miller 45 



Plum and prune culture, Allen 45 



Prune culture, Peneveyre 45 



A handbook of tropical gardening and planting, Macmillan 45 



New method of growing bananas, Bertoni 45 



[Cacao manurial plats in Dominica] 45 



Indian cashew-nut industry. Baker 46 



The coconut and its products, with special reference to Ceylon, Pratt 46 



Manux'ial experiments in connection with lime cultivation 46 



The sugar palm, Barrett 46 



Tea manuring experiments, II, Bernard and Deuss 46 



Tea mannring experiments at Malabar, Bosscha . 46 



Studies in Juglans, II, Babcock 46 



Rhamnns pnrHliiana, Johnson and Hindman 46 



The cultivation and collection of medicinal plants in England, Whatmough- 46 



Plant diseases and pests regulations 46 



FORESTRY. 



Michigan manual of forestry. — I, Forest regulation. Roth 46 



Acts of assembly relating to forests and forestry, edited by Kalbfns 47 



Forest administrntion in the colonies 47 



A review of the net revenues from the Saxony state forests for 1912, Vogel_ 47 



Influence of soil strata in drifting sand on growth of forest trees, Schottler_ 47 



A fertilizer experiment in forest nurseries, von Rusnov 47 



A thinning experiment with Douglas fir (Pscudotsuga taxifolia), Kubelka_ 47 



