MISCELLANEOUS. 523 



(E. S. R., li, p. 605); the water content of creamery Imtter (E. S. R., 14, p. 11L5); 

 the phj'siology of milk secretion (E. 8. R., 13, p. 884; 14, p. 608) ; and takosis, a conta- 

 gious disease of goats (E. S. R., 15, p. 304). 



Statistics are given on the value of animals sold and slaughtered on farms in 1899, 

 imports and exports of animals and animal products, receipts and shipments of live 

 stock during 1902, and on the -wool product of the United States in 1902. Some agri- 

 cultural experiment station work is reviewed, a list is given of State sanitary officers 

 having charge of live stock matters, and the rules and regulations of the Bureau of 

 Anirnal Industry issued in 1902 are included. 



Brief articles based largely ui3on consular reports are included on the following 

 subjects: Death of cattle supposed to be due to Stnmgylus micrurus; demand for 

 American horses in France; horse breeding in Germany and France; importation 

 of cattle into Cuba; meat and cattle trade in Barcelona; German meat inspection; 

 fees for inspecting meat in Germany; meat inspection expenses in Germany; the 

 price of pork in Germany; meat imports into England; price of beef and scarcity of 

 cattle in Belgium ; meat and dairy products in New Zealand ; slaughtering of cattle 

 for jerked beef in River Plate districts, 1899 to 1902; exports of animal jiroducts 

 from the Transvaal; sausages in Spain; jerked beef exports to Cuba; frozen meats, 

 and statistics of live stock in Uruguay; meat, butter, and eggs in Russia; Russia's 

 export of poultry; numbers of live stock in United Kingdom; loss of live stock in 

 Australia; live stock statistics of France; exports of animals and animal products 

 from Argentina; wool production in Australasia; Australian wool for the United 

 States; wool trade in Australia; imports of Angora goatskins; imports of mohair at 

 Bradford, 1897-1902; salt for sheep; cattle food from sugar cane in the West Indies; 

 milk powder in Sweden; Persian lamb, Gray Grimmer, and Astrakhan; and the 

 musk ox. 



Reprints from Bulletins Nos. 47, 50, and 52, and Annual Reports 8 to 11 

 {OJdahoma Sin. Bnl. oi), pp. 200). — The articles reprinted are as follows: Reports of 

 wheat raisers (E. S. R., 12, p. 850); experiments with wheat, 1900 (E. S. R., 12, p. 

 846) ; manuring the soil (E. S. R., 13, p. 235); the potato crop (E. S. R., 13, p. 845) ; 

 variety tests of cabbage (E. S. R., 13, p. 853); feeding experiments, 1896-1899' 

 (E. S. R., 11, p. 1069); wheat culture experiments, 1898-99 (E. S. R., 11, p. 1036); 

 destruction of insects (E. S. R., 11, p. 1067); disease among horses (E. S. R., 11, p. 

 1090); summary of results of experiments with field and orchard crops (E. S. R., 11, 

 p. 1036); means of preventing Texas fever (E. S. R., 12, p. 691); hog cholera (E. S. R., 



12, p. 692); diversified farming in Oklahoma (E. S. R., 12, p. 640); summary of 

 press bulletins (E. S. R., 12, p. 697; 13, p. 598; 14, p. 406); wines and wine making 

 (E. S. R., 12, p. 693); grape growing (P]. S. R., 12, p. 648); fungus diseases of grapes 

 (E. S. R., 12, p. 657); insects affecting the grape (E. S. R., 12, jj. 664); insecticides 

 and fungicides (E. S. R., 12, p. 664); stock feeding (E. S. R., 12, p. 677); some 

 Oklahoma feeding stuffs (E. S. R., 12, p. 677) ; cotton-seed meal as pig feed (E. S. R., 



13, p. 583); cowpea hay for swine (E. S. R., 13, p. 584); the orchard (E. S. R., 13, 

 p. 553). Several of the above articles have been abridged. The bulletin is intended 

 to furnish information frequently asked for by new settlers in the Territory, and as 

 no new matter has been included in the bulletin it will not 1)e sent to the regular 

 mailing li,st. 



Bulletins and annual reports of Arizona Station, W. O. Hayes {Arizona Sta. 

 Iiiih'x to Vol. II f, Biih. .U-40, <in<! Ann. Bjit.'^. 1900-1001, pp. SS9-3G5) — A general 

 index. 



liegislation relating- to farmers' institutes in the United States and the 

 Province of Ontario, Canada, J. Hamilton {U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of E.Tperiment 

 SladonK Ihd. Ll't, pj). .53). 



A few good books and bulletins on nature study, school gardening, and 

 elementary agriculture for common schools, D. J. Crosby ( U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Office of E.iperbnerd Stations C'irc. .52, pp. 4) ■ 



