EXPERIMENT STATION BECORD. 793 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 1911 

 (U. S. Dept. Affi:, Bur. Anim. Indus. Rpt. 1911, pp. S56, pis. 33. figs. 3).— This 

 contains a reiiort of the chief of the Bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30, 

 1911, and numerous articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue. An appendix 

 contains an account of the organization and work of the Bureau, a list of its 

 publications in 1911, and rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture 

 relating to animal industry issued in 1911. 



Annual Report of Alaska Stations, 1912 (Alaska Stas. Rpt. 1912, pp. 96, 

 pis. 17). — This contains the organization list and a report of the several lines 

 of work carried on during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912. Meteorological 

 data and accounts of the extensive tests with field and garden crops, of the live- 

 stock operations, and of other lines of work are abstracted elsewhere in this 

 issue. 



Twenty-sixth Annual Report of Nebraska Station, 1912 (Nebraska Sta. 

 Rpt. 1912, pp. XXVIII). — This contains the organization list, a review of the 

 work and publications of the year, and a financial statement as to the federal 

 funds for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912, and as to the remaining funds for 

 the fiscal year ended July 31, 1912. The experimental work reported is for the 

 most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Reports of New Hampshire Station, 

 1911-12 (New Hampshire Sta. Bui. 163, pp. 64). — This contains the organiza- 

 tion list; a report of the director for the biennial period ended October 31, 1912; 

 financial statements for the fiscal years ended June 30, 1911, and June 30, 1912 ; 

 departmental reports, the expei'imental work of which is for the most part ab- 

 stracted elsewhere in this issue; a list of the publications of the station from 

 1888 to 1912; and meteorological data abstracted on page 722 of this issue. 



Thk-ty-first Annual Report of Ohio Station, 1912 (Ohio Sta. Bui. 2/f9, 

 pp. XXIX). — This contains the organization fist, a report of the board of con- 

 trol, a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912, and a report 

 of the director summarizing the work and publications of the station during 

 the year. 



Annual report of the director for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912 

 (Dclaicare Sta. Bui. 100, pp. 14). — This contains the organization list and the 

 report of the director on the work and publications of the station. It includes 

 a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912. 



Press bulletins (Ohio Sta. Bui. 21,9, pp. S99-922).— Reprints of press bul- 

 letins on the following subjects: Chinch bugs; how to fight grasshoppers; Hes- 

 sian fiy warning; spurious catalpa stock; tree cankers in the apple orchard; 

 fraudulent tree agents ; alfalfa in Ohio ; corn molds and ear rots in 1911 — a seed 

 corn warning ; Christmas trees ; destructive rodents ; an advanced partial re- 

 port of work begun in 1910 in orchard fertilization in southeastern Ohio ; pas- 

 turing the farm woodlot ; the periodical cicada or seventeen-year locust : why 

 bad eggs; emergency hay crops; sugar beet culture in Ohio; burn the chinch 

 bugs; the preparation of wool for market; Dwarf Essex rape for pork produc- 

 tion; two early orchard pests; are the apple orchards worth saving; are apple 

 trees grown for firewood or for fruit production ; wheat field day at the Ohio 

 Experiment Station ; the climate of Ohio ; insect pests of the wheat field ; the 

 soils of Ohio ; and corn growers requested to look for diseased plants. 



