MISCELLANEOUS. 829 



3; 23, pp. 8S9-S92,fi(js. 5). — Notes are given on a self- feeding thresher, butter work- 

 ers, portable engines, hand distributor for fertilizers, dust-proof plow hub, beet seed 

 cleaning apparatus, thresher with shnple cleaning device, sod plow, fan, coupling, 

 clutch, seed cleaner and grader, steam plow (cable), safety device for threshers, 

 plows, feed cutters, combined harvesting machines (mower and tedder, and wagon 

 truck and rake), mowing machines, two-row beet digger, continuous milk cooler, 

 horse rakes, beet harvesters, straw carrier for threshing machines, and steam boilers. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Fifteenth Annual Report of Arkansas Station, 1902 {Arkansas Sta. Ilpl. 



1902, pp. 14s). — This includes the organization list of the station; a brief statement 

 by the director concerning the publications of the station during the year; a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902; and reprints of Bulletins 71-76 of 

 the station on the following subjects: Why 'apple trees fail (E. S. R., 14, p. 43); 

 sweet-potato experiments (E. S. E., 14, p. 4.35); pork-production experiments and 

 hog ranching (E. S. R., 14, p. 486); the phosphate rocks of Arkansas (E. S. R., 14, 

 p. 430); alfalfa (E. S. R., 14, p. 433); and pig-feeding experiments with cotton-seed 

 meal (E. S. R., 15, ]>. 68). 



Report of California Station, 1902-3 {California Sta. Rj^t. 1902-3, pp. 222).— 

 This includes a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902; the organi- 

 zation list of the station; a general review of station work by the director; a report 

 on farmers' institutes, by E. J. Wickson; numerous articles abstracted elsewhere; 

 brief summaries of several of the bulletins issued by the station; reports of the Cali- 

 fornia Substations; and a list of donations and exchanges. 



Sixteenth Annual Report of Michigan Station, 1903 {Micliicj((n Sta. Rpt. 



1903, pp. 73-293). — This contains a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1903; a report of the director on the work of the station during the year; 

 departmental reports; meteorological observations noted elsewhere; and reprints of 

 Bulletins 203-210 and Special Bulletins 17-19 of the station on the following subjects: 

 Analyses of some of the commercial feeding stuffs of Michigan (E. S. R., 15, p. 67); 

 mosquitoes and other insects of the year 1902 (E. S. R., 15, p. 61); rejwrt of South 

 Haven Substation (E. S. R., 15, p. 38); notes on small fruits (E. S. R., 15, p. 42); 

 sugar-beet experiments, 1902 (E. S. R., 15, p. 35); Michigan mushrooms (E. S. R., 

 15, p. 123); vegetable and bush fruits (E. S. R., 15, p. 252); fertilizer analyses 

 (E. S. R., 15, p. 348); sugar beets in the Upper Peninsula (E. S. R., 15, p. 36); and 

 spraying calendar (E. S. R., 15, p. 61). 



Sixteenth Annual Report of Mississippi Station, 1903 {3flssissippi Sta. Rpt. 

 1903, pp. 31). — This includes the organization list of the station; a financial state- 

 ment for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903; and reports of the director and heads 

 of dei^artments containing outlines and some of the results of station work during 

 the year. Parts of these reports are noted elsewhere. A brief summary of the 

 work at the McNeill Branch Station, by E. B. Ferris, concludes the report. 



Twenty-First Annual Report of New York State Station, 1902 (iVew York 

 State Sta. Rpl. 1902, pp. 473). — This contains the organization list of the station; a 

 financial statement for the year ended September 30, 1902; and reprints of Bulletins 

 212-229 of the station on the following subjects: Director's report for 1902 (E. S. R., 

 14, p. 1131); control oif rusty spot in cheese factories (E. S. R., 14, p. 908); two 

 unusual troubles of apple foliage (E. S. R., 14, p. 774); potato-spraying experiments 

 in 1902 (E. S. R., 14, p. 875); raspberry cane blight and raspberry yellows (E. S. R., 

 14, p. 981); a de.structive apple rot following scab (E. S. R., 14, p. 1088) ; a study of 

 some of the salts formed by casein and paracasein with acids: Their relations to 

 American Cheddar cheese (E. S. R., 14, yy. 607); methods for the estimation of the 



