340 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



Cooperation and fruit growing, A. McNeill (Canada Dept. Agr., Branch 

 Dairy and Cold Storage Comr. Bui. S8, 1913, pp. ^6). — A revised edition of 

 Bulletin 18 of this series (E. g. R., 19, p. 144) to which considerable new mat- 

 ter relative to cooperative marketing has been added. 



Nomenclature of fruit (Fruit World Austral., I4 (1913), No. 5, pp. IJfff- 

 I'fG). — This comprises lists compiled under the direction of the Australasian 

 Pomological Committee of apples and pears suitable for planting in Victoria, 

 South Australia, New South Wales, and Tasmania. The synonyms and the 

 preferred names adopted for a namber of apples and pears are also included. 



The influence of cold on the conservation of the olive, G. Sani (Atti R. 

 Accad. Lincei, Rend. CI. ^ci. Fis., Mat. e Nat., 5. ser., 22 (1913), I, No. 7, pp. Jf59- 

 464). — Having previously determined that cold arrests the lipolytic activities 

 of the enzyms contained in the fruit of the olive, the author conducted more 

 extensive tests to determJne the possible use of cold storage as a means of pro- 

 longing the oil pressing period without affecting the quality of the oil. The 

 investigation is here summarized, and shows that oil of good quality may be 

 expressed both from olives which have been allowed to remain on the tree 

 several weeks after the normal harvest period when the weather is cool, and 

 when the olives have been picked at the normal period and placed in cold 

 storage for several weeks. 



Establishment of northern vineyards and forcing houses by the use of 

 American grape stocks, P. Geevats (Prog. Agr. et Vit. (Ed. VEst-Centre) . 34 

 (1913), No. 21, pp. 6-'i8-6o7). — A discussion of the adaptability of American 

 grape stocks for the reestablishment of the viticultural industry in northern 

 France. The author concludes that by the judicious selection of American 

 stocks the old-time grape industries of the above region may be easily renewed. 



Experiments on the resistance of coffee to native weed growth and on its 

 growth in the shade of trees, M. S. Bertoni ( Agronomia [Puerto Bertoni^. 5 

 (1913), No. 3-4, pp. 119-12S) — The experiments here reported were conducted 

 at the agronomic station of Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay, during the period 1909 

 to 1912. 



The data given indicate that coffee plants are not only resistant to native 

 vegetation but also that they thrive better where the vegetation is removed 

 only once or twice a year than where it is removed 3 or 4 t"mes. A certain 

 amount of shade appears to be necessary for the best development of the coffee. 

 The more frequently weed growth is removed, the greater the amount of shade 

 required. 



Observations on the preparation of cacao, E. Pereot (Cornpt. Rend. Acad. 

 Sci. [Paris], 1.56 (1913), No. 18, pp. 1394-1396).— Some preliminary experi- 

 ments conducted by the author and here briefly summarized indicate that the 

 fermentation process employed in freeing cacao beans from the pulp and to pro- 

 mote the development of theobromin in the beans may be practically done away 

 with by a mechanical separation of the seed from the pulp and sterilizing the 

 beans with steam. The author has found it perfectly possible to obtain in vitro 

 in the powder of beans thus sterilized transformations comparable to those 

 which are produced in the seed in the usual course of fermentation. 



The Philippine coconut indiistry, O. W. Barrett (Philippine Bur. Agr. 

 Bui. 25, 1913, pp. 67, pis. 19, figs. 2). — The present bulletin embodies the prin- 

 cipal features of the author's previous bulletin (E. S. R., 26, p. 74.3) and other 

 articles on various phases of coconut culture," together with considerable later 

 information regarding cultural methods, statistics, and management of coconut 

 plantations. 



•Philippine Agr. Bev. [English Ed.], 5 (1912), No. 5, pp. 243-288, pis. G. 



