41(') EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



A proposed agricultural vehicle of the Arabian type, ^Iarechal {Bui. Dir. 

 Agr. et Com. [Tunis], S {19UJ), No. 28, pi). S12-339, fig><. 1J).—A two-wheel cart is 

 described in detail, with results of tests of draft on different kinds of roads and 

 descTii)tions of harness to be useil with the cart. 



The utility of motor cars for the carriage of produce in country districts, 

 J. T. Bell ei- al. {Queensland Agr. Jour., 13 {1003), No. 2, pp. 110-121). — A general 

 discussion of the proposition to substitute motor freight cars for the so-called agri- 

 cultural railways, whicli aro clainied to have been unprofitable in Queensland. 



Applications of electricity to agriculture, E. Guarini {Engineer. Mag. and 

 Ind. Eev., 25 {1903), No. 4, PP- 550-561, figs. 9). — The agricultural applications of 

 electricity discussed in this article are measurement of rainfall and for storm warn- 

 ing (Lancetta's apparatus), telegraphy and telephony, operating plows, appliances 

 for felling trees, thrashing machines, etc. An electrically operated farm at Crottorf, 

 Saxony, is described, especial attention being given to the installation of the elec- 

 trical ai^paratus. Figures are quoted to show that the cost of electric plowing has 

 been reduced as low as $2 to $2.50 per acre. Two systems are employed — single 

 motor and double motor. 



Farm power, K. Hoggan et al. {Queensland Agr. Jour., 13 {1903), No. 2, pp. 123- 

 130). — A discussion of the adaptability of gasoline engines to farm work, with an 

 account of the construction and oijeration of such engines. 



Farm engines and how to run them, J. H. Stephenson ( Chicago: Frederick J. 

 Drake & Co., 1903, pp. 215, pi. 1, figs. 63). — "A simple, practical handbook, for 

 experts as well as for amateurs, fully describing every part of an engine and boiler, 

 giving full directions for the safe and economical management of both; also several 

 hundred questions and answers often given in examinations for an engineer's 

 license, and chapters on farm engine economy, with special attention to traction and 

 gasoline farm engines, and a chapter on the science of successful thrashing." 



The use of agricultural machinery in the United States, G. Fischer {Deut. 

 Landw. Fresse, 29 {1902), Nos. 101, pp. 813, 814, figs. 2; 102, pp. 821, 822, figs. 6; 30 

 {1903), Nos. 1, p. 4, fig. 1; 3, pp. 20, 21, fig. 1; 4, p. 26; 7, pp. 47, 48, fig. 1; 10, p. 74, 

 figs. 6; 12, pp. 91, 92, figs. 11; 16, p. 127, figs. 5; 18, p. 148, figs. 2; 20, pp. 164, 165, 

 figs. 6; 22, p. 184, figs. 7; 25, p. 211, figs. 2). — The implements and machinery dis- 

 cussed include plows, harrows, fertilizer distributers, seeding machines, harvesting 

 machines, thrashing machines, elevators, hay handling and loading apparatus, wind- 

 mills, cold storage and drying rooms, road shovels, silos, machines used in maize 

 culture, dairy apparatus and utensils, and apparatus for preserving and canning fruit. 



Markets for agricultural implements and vehicles in foreign countries, 

 {HpKC. [ V. »S'.] Consular Rpls. 27, 1903, pp. XL VIII [^ 181, figs. 34). — The questions con- 

 sidered in these reports are the cost of hand labor as related to labor-saving machin- 

 ery; suitability of roads and draft animals in foreign countries to American vehicles; 

 the extent to which agricultural implements, vehicles, etc., are used in the different 

 countries; and the possibility and means of extending the trade in these articles. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twelfth Annual Report of Oklahoma Station, 1903 ( Oklahoma Sta. Ept. 1903, 

 pp. 15-71). — This includes a report of the director, a summary of the press bulletins 

 issued during the year, meteorological data noted elsewhere, and a financial statement 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903. The j^ress bulletins, which are to a certain 

 extent a repetition of matter contained in the regular bulletins of the station, deal with 

 a variety of subjects, including the culture of wheat, oats, alfalfa, and peanuts, mak- 

 ing lawns, testing seeds, comparative feeding value of cotton seed and cotton-seed 

 meal, feeding experiments with steers and pigs, Texas fever, pink-eye, borers in trees, 

 Hessian fly, body blight of pears, grapevine-leaf hopper, melon louse, striped cucum- 



