198 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Ninth Annual ileport of Montana Station, 1902 {Mimtann Std. lijjt. 1902, pp. 

 ISl). — This contains the organization list of the station, a financial statement for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, a report of the director discussing agricultural con- 

 ditions in the State and reviewing the work of the station, and departmental reports 

 for the year ciKled Niivciiil)er 30, 1902, ])arfs of which are noted elsewhere. 



Annual Report of Nev/ Jersey stations, 1902 (Xew Jersey Stas. /?;>/. 1902, pp. 

 XVII~593). — This includes theorganization lists of the stations; a financial statement 

 of the State station ff)r the year ended Octol)er 31, 1902, and of the college station for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902; a report of the director reviewing the different 

 lines of station work; and reports of the chemists, assistant in soil chemistry and 

 bacteriology, assistant in horticulture, assistant in dairy husbandry, biologist, botanist, 

 and entomologist. Reprints of Bulletins 160 of the station on Feeding Stuffs (E. S. 

 R., 14, p. 380) and 163 on Fertilizers (E. S. R., 14, p. 749) are included in the report 

 of the chemists. 



Thirteenth. Annual Report of North Dakota Station, 1902 (Xurtli JJaI:(/ta 

 Sta. Rpl. 1902, pp. 128). — This includes the organization list of the station, a brief 

 rejiort of the director, reports of tlie heads of the different departments int^luding the 

 results of experimental work noted elsewhere, a summary of Bulletin 53 of the station 

 on Food Adulteration (E. S. R., 14, p. 892), and a financial .statement for the fiscal 

 year ended June 30, li)02. 



Annual Report of Pennsylvania Station, 1902 [Pcniniiih-ania Sta. Rpt. 1902, 

 pp. 4S3). — This includes the organization list of the station; a financial statement for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902; a report of the director reviewing station work 

 during the year and discussing the needs and future of the station; and departmental 

 reports containing in addition to accounts of the different lines of work several articles 

 noted elsewhere in this issue. The following articles in essentially the same form or 

 abridged have already been noted from other sources: Pennsylvania sugar beets in 

 1901 (E. S. R., 14, p. 141), errors in manure sampling and analy.sis (E. S. R., 14, 

 p. 938), effects of fermentation upon the chemical composition of cider and vine- 

 gar (E. S. R., 14, p. 1027), changes in the composition of milk during its delivery 

 (E. S. R., 14, p. 489), available energy of timothy hay (E. S. R., 14, p. 993), com- 

 bustible gases excreted by cattle (E. S. R., 14, p. 994), rearing of calves on milk 

 substitutes (E. S. R., 14, p. 479), and weeds in general — two newcomers into 

 Pennsylvania (E. S. E., 14, p. 52). 



Fifteenth Annual Report of Rhode Island Station, 1902 {Rhode Island Sta. 

 Rpt. 190 J, pp. 203-412— Till). — This contains a brief biographical sketch of the late 

 Joseph A. Tillinghast, a report of the director on the different lines of station work, 

 reports of divisions and articles abstracted elsewhere, a financial statement for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, acknowledgments, and a complete list of the publi- 

 cations (if the station since its organization. 



Farmers' institutes in the United States, D. J. Crosby ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Office 

 of Experiment Stations Rpt. 1902, yip. 461-480). — A general survey is given of the insti- 

 tute movement in the United States and of the work and appropriations in each of 

 the different States during the year, 



Farmers' institute bulletin, 1902 (Mississippi Sta. Bui. 80, pp. 59, figs. 15). — 

 This is a summary account of the round-up farmers' institute held at the college in 

 August, 1902. Some of the suljjects discussed were as follows : The Relation of the 

 Experiment Station to Mississippi Farmers, and The Functions of Live Stock on the 

 Farm, by W. L. Hutchinson; Raising Beef Cattle for Profit in Mississippi, by E. R. 

 Lloyd; Farm Drainage, by J. W. Fox; The Relation of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture to the Farmer, by C. B. Smith; Commercial Horticulture in Missis- 

 sippi, by A. B. McKay; Dairying in Mississippi, by J. S. Moore; The Breeding and 

 Development of Dairy Cows, by Ada F. Howie; Some Diseases of Farm Animals and 

 How to Treat Them, by J. C. Roberts; What Chemistry Has Done for the Farmer, 

 by W. R. Perkins; and Mississippi Agriculture as Viewed Ijy an Outsider, by H. E. 

 Stockbridge. 



