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The treatment of cider sickness, Grove 717 



The relative value of cane and beet sugar for fermentation purposes, Grove 718 



The fermentation of cane molasses; composition of rum, Kayser 718 



Transformation of nitrogenous substances during curing of tobacco, Bernardini. 718 



Note on the detection of faulty sizing in high-grade papers, Sammet 718 



METEOROLOGY. 



Meteorology in relation to agricultnre in Canada, Stupart and Mills 718 



Meteorological observations, Eredia 718 



Frequency of low temperatures at Vercelli and its effect on rice, Marcarelli. . 718 



Night frost in the East Indies, Van Bemmelen 719 



The weather of Scotland in 1915, Watt 719 



[The climate of Pavlovsk], Shipchinskil (Shipchinski) 719 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



Michigan's shifting sands: Their control and better utilization, Sanford 719 



The weathering of podzol soils of middle Norrland, Tamm 720 



Some problems of the study of forest soils, Borghesani 720 



Chemical and biological notes on cherry orchard soils, Harvey and Hooper 720 



Investigations on tobacco soils, Bai'ker 720 



Red soil, DeRegny 721 



Analyses of soils of Stewart County, Worsham, jr., et al 721 



Notes on some west country soils, Gimingham 721 



A new method for mechanical soil analysis, Oden 721 



Judging soils on the basis of the hydrochloric acid extract, von Sigmond 721 



The cause and nature of soil acidity, Truog 722 



Preliminary studies on heated soils, Johnson 722 



Changes in soils brought about by heating, Wilson 723 



The occurrence of bacteria in frozen soil, Harder 723 



Soil bacteria and phosphates, Hopkins and Whiting 723 



Disinfection experiments on moor soil, von Nostitz 724 



Niter spots, Stalder 724 



Acid phosphate v. raw rock phosphate as fertilizer, Wiancko and Conner 724 



Red soils and phosphatic manuring, Arie 725 



Electro-potash as a fertilizer, Rhodin 726 



Influence of calcium and magnesimn compounds on plant growth, Wyatt 726 



Sour soils and liming, Frear 727 



Lime and its uses in agriculture, Harcourt 727 



Liming and inoculating soils, Dorchester, Douglass, and Taff 727 



The relation of sulphur to soil productivity, Duley 728 



Can lithia be a constituent of plant food? Hahn 728 



[Analyses of fertilizers and fertilizing materials] , Rose and Wilson 728 



Commercial fertilizers, Jones, jr., et al 728 



Report [of Ohio] on fertilizers and lime licensed during 1913 728 



AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 



Life cycles of the bacteria, Lohnis and Smith 728 



Studies of Bacillus radicicola, Temple 729 



The relation of soil micro-organisms to soluble plant food, Doryland 729 



The scope and relations of taxonomic botany, Hitchcock 730 



Drug plants of North Dakota, Englehorn 730 



Notes on Quamasia with a description of a new species, Piper 730 



Branching and flowering habits of cacao and potashte. Cook 730 



The double stock, its history and behavior, Saunders 730 



Explanation of abnormally high records of doubles of stocks, Saunders 731 



Relation of half-hoariness in Matthiola to glabrousness and hoariness, Saunders. . 731 



Pollen sterility in relation to crossing, Gates and Goodspeed 731 



On the germination of the pollen grains of apple and other fruit trees, Adams. . 731 



Vegetative succession under irrigation, Macbride - - 732 



A climatic index to represent both moisture and temperature, Livingston 732 



A living climatological instrument, Livingston and McLean 732 



The daily march of transpiring power, Trelease and Livingston 732 



The transpiring power of plants as influenced by altitude and habitat, Shreve. . 732, 



