194 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Relation of electricity to irrigation works and land development, T. Rooke 

 {.Tour, and Proc. Roy. Soc. N S. Wales, Engin. Sect., 37 {1903), pp. XCII-CII).— 

 The possibilities of the application of electricity in irrigation are discussed, examples 

 of successful use being cited. 



Irrigation, R. Luna (Heraldo Agr., 4 {1904), No. 12, pp. 10, 11; 5 {1905), No*. 1. 

 pp. 17, 18, fig. 1; 2, pp. 9, 10, figs. 2; 3, p. 9, fig. 1; 4,PP- 19, 20).— Notes are given 

 on irrigation in Mexico and other countries. 



Filtration of public water supplies, R. W. Pratt {Ohio Sanit. Bui;, 10 {1905), 

 No. 1-3, pp. H5-76).— Various methods which have been used for this purpose are 

 discussed. 



Sewage disposal, G. A. Johnson [Ohio Sanit. Bui., 10 {1905), No. 1-3, pp. 23- 

 38). —This article contains statements regarding the number and size of sewage 

 purification works in Ohio, the reasons for sewage purification, methods of sewage 

 disposal, including dilution, broad irrigation and sewage farming, intermittent sand 

 filtration, treatment of sewage in coarse-grain beds, and notes on preparatory treat- 

 ment of sewage and disposal of sludge. The Columbus sewage testing station and 

 the methods used there are described in some detail. 



The septic tank for the disposal of sewag-e, F. T. Shutt {Canada Expt. Farms 

 Epts. 1904, pp. 194-197, fig. 1). — This system of sewage disposal is described and its 

 installation is explained. 



Land disposal of garbage: An opportunity for engineers and contractors 

 {Engin. News, 53 {1905), No. 14, pp. 367-369). — The successful experience of the city 

 of St. Louis in disposing of garbage by burial on agricultural lands is described, and 

 the system is commended on account of its simplicity and efficiency. "From the 

 economic point of view, it saves from destruction all the fertilizing elements in the 

 garbage, and would enable barren sandy wastes to be converted into market gardens." 



Eleventh annual report of the commissioner of public roads for the year 

 ending October 31, 1904, H. I. Budd (Paterson, N. J.: News Printing Co., 1905, 

 pp. 220, pis. 39). — This report includes statements regarding costs of roads constructed 

 in !New Jersey during the year; descriptions of the improved roads; an account of 

 the New Jersey good roads exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition; articles on oiled 

 roads, road maintenance, permanence of roads, meadow roads, bitulithic pavement, 

 and facts and fallacies of road construction and repair; a list of quarries and gravel 

 pits in the State; and appendixes containing forms of specifications, etc., and the 

 text of the State road law approved April 1, 1903, with regulations adopted in 

 accordance with this law. 



The campaign for good roads ( Wallaces' Farmer, 30 {1905), No. 15, pp. 544, 545, 

 figs. 11). — This is in large part a description of King's method of keeping roads in 

 condition by dragging. 



Road improvement in South Carolina, P. T. Brodie ( Clemson Agr. Col. Ext. 

 Work, 1 {1905), No. 1, pp. 18-43, figs. 11). — A general discussion of this subject illus- 

 trated by local examples of road construction, particularly the object lesson road 

 constructed at Clemson Agricultural College. 



Practical road building in Madison County, Tennessee, S. C. Lancaster ( U. S. 

 Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1904, pp. 323-340, p>ls. 5, figs. 5). — "The purpose of this article 

 is to give the plain facts relating to the construction, cost, and maintenance of first- 

 class stone roads in a county of west Tennessee, where it was necessary to transport 

 all material by rail; and in order that the reader may be able to comprehend these 

 facts more fully, a few statistics are given regarding area, population, taxable values, 

 etc." 



Road building in the far North, C. W. Plrington {Engin. and Min. Jour., 78 

 {1904), Nos. 21, pp. 828, 829, figs. 4; 22, pp. 869-871, figs. 4).— Road building in 

 Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada is discussed, and work undertaken is 

 described. 



