CONTENTS. Ill 



I'agc. 



A process for makino; availal)le phosphates, C. H. Dempwolf, jr 236 



Frost and potasli fertilizers, A. (^outurier 236 



Analyses of fertilizing substances, C. A. (loessmanii 236 



Tabulated analyses of commercial fertilizers, J. Hamilton an<l W. Frear 236 



Fertilizers, R. E. Rose and E. E. McLin 236 



FIELD CROPS. 



Work of the Northeast [Minnesota] Experiment Farm, II. II. Chapman 236 



Practices in crop rotation, G. K. Holmes 237 



Crop rotation for Soutli Dakota, PI C. Chilcott 237 



Industrial progress in plant woi-k, B. T. Galloway 238 



Exjierience and results in plant breeding, O. Pitsch 239 



Congressional seed and plant distribution circulars, 1902-3 239 



Variety tests with Swedish barley 239 



Nitrate of soda as a fertilizer for brewing barley 239 



Variety tests with red clover, O. Pitsch 240 



The corn crop, C. G. Williams 240 



Improvement of corn by seed selection, C. P. Hartley 240 



The commercial grading of corn, C. S. Scotield 241 



Improvement of cotton by seed selection, H. J. Webber 241 



Flaxseed production, commerce, and manufacture, C. M. Daugherty 241 



Report on the commercial fibers of the Philippines, J. W. Gilmore 241 



Forage conditions and problems, D. Griffiths 241 



Field experiment with nitrate of soda on forage crops, E. B. Yoorhees 242 



Leguminous forage plants, J. Withycombe 242 



Fertilizer experiments with hops 243 



Time of harvesting horse beans, A. Gr^goire 243 



Ten years' experiments with oats, C. G. Williams 243 



Tests of yellow and green grained strains of rye, A. Geerkens 243 



The cultivation of sisal in Hawaii, F. E. Conter 244 



Culture and composition of the soy bean, G. Lechartier 244 



Hugarhouse refuse as a fertilizer for sugar beets, F. Strohmer 244 



Beets for distillery and forage purposes, L. Malpeaux 244 



The California sugar industry, G. W. Bhaw 244 



Sugar-cane culture in the Southeast for table sirup, H. W. Wiley 245 



A primer on the cultivation of sugar cane, W. S. Lyon 246 



Cultivation of tobacco, C. W. Dorsey 246 



Universal nomenclature of wheat, N. A. Cobb 246 



Saragolla wheat, D. G. Fairchild 247 



A study of the wheats of the Province of Santa F^, C. D. Girola 247 



Experiments with wheats of the Province of Cordova, C. D. Girola 247 



Seed wheat, N. A. Cobb 247 



Influence of the awns on transpiration and the quality of grain, L. Perlitius.. 247 



Investigations on the stooling of grains, W. Rimpau 247 



Stack ensilage, A. Conlon 248 



HORTICULTURE. 



Cassell's dictionary of practical gardening, W. P. Wright 248 



New experiments in electro-culture, P. Van Biervliet 248 



Is it more advantageous to use seeds the year they are harvested, or after sev- 

 eral years' preservation? Grosdemange 248 



Three new plant introductions from Japan, D. (t. Fairchild 249 



Plant introduction notes from South Africa, D. G. Fairchild 249 



Exi)eriments in nuilching, R. A. Emerson 249 



Field experiments with nitrate of soda on market garden crops, E. B. Voorhees. 251 



Fertilizers for special crops, A. F. Woods and R. E. B. McKenney 252 



Suitable fertilizers in the cultivation of lettuce, Beaucaire 252 



(larden vegetables, H. H. Chapman 252 



Vegetable and bush fruits, L. R. Taft and M. L. Dean 252 



New onion culture, T. <Treiner 252 



A new preserving melon, the " Triamble" 252 



Germination of truffle spores, L. Matruchot 253 



Artificial culture of the truffle, R. Dubois 253 



Fungus cultures 253 



American horticultural manual, II, J. L. Budd and N, E. Hansen . . , , 253 



