CONTENTS. II r 



FIELD CHOPS. 



Report of the agriculturists, W. I'. Brooks, I'. R. Church, and S. B. Haskell. . 234 



Reld experiments for 1903, W. R. Perkina 235 



Report of work al McNeill Branch Experiment Station, E. B. Ferris 236 



[Reporl on field corps], J. 1 1. Sheppera 236 



The Edgeley Subexperiment Station, ( »• A.. Thompson and J. II. Shepperd... 



Field experiments in Staffordshire and Shropshire 238 



Memoranda of plans for arid farm investigations . 239 



Effects of manures throughout rotations of crops, D. A. Gilchrist L'.; ( .t 



Foragecrops, I'.. R. Lloyd 239 



Wyoming forage plants, H. <■. Knight, F. E. Bepner, and A. Nelson lmo 



[Experimental work upon weeds and forage plants], I.. R. Waldron 240 



Inspection of L r ra-- and clover seed, I.. R. Jones and W. J. Morse 241 



Grain scon- cards, J. II. Shepperd 241 



Variety test.- of wheat, oats, ami potatoes, < i. < '. Watson and A. K. Risser l'41 



Alfalfa in Vermont, .1. L Mills and I.. R. Jones lMl' 



Improvement in the quality of barley in Austria, .1. Stoklasa 242 



Analysis of individual -talks of corn, E. F. Ladd 243 



The work <>n flax. II. I.. Bolley 243 



Fertilizer experiments with hemp, kuhnert 243 



Tin- potato and its culture, W. T. Macoun 243 



Variety tests with potatoes in 1901 L904, G. Martinet 244 



Solauum commer8oni and its variations at Verrieres, Labergerie l'44 



Correlative changes in rye breeding, K. von Riimker 244 



Method of tobacco Beed selection, W. W. Cobey 2 \~> 



Tobacco experiment-. W. Frear 245 



Experiments with fertilizers on tobacco, ( '. E. Thorne l'4"> 



Experiments in fertilizing tobacco, < '. I >usserre 245 



Wi nter wheat, T. L. Lyons and A. Keyser 246 



The yautias, or taniers, of Porto Rico, < >. W. Barrett : 246 



HORTICULTURE. 



Report of the horticulturists, F. A. Waugh and <i. 0. Greene 247 



Horticultural department, ( '. B. Waldron 249 



Report of the horticulturist, W. Stuart 249 



The real Luther Burbank, E. J. Wickson 250 



Bnd variation. Facts that prove its occurrence, O. W. Blacknall.. 250 



Asparagus growing in Arkansas, I-]. Walker 251 



jtaparagUS and salt. E. Walker L'.'tl 



Onions and bunch crops at Beeville, .1. K. Robertson and E. C. Green 251 



Rhubarl .in A rkansas, I-:. Walker l':>:; 



Pruning; wounds and their treatment; pruning tools, H. II. Hume 253 



Nitrate of soda as a fertilizer for fruit trees, B. Trenkner 253 



A straw n in lei i in the orchard, I". T. Cox and W. J. < ireen •_'">.; 



Plums in South Dakota, X. E. Hansen 253 



Keeping apples, .1. C. M. Johnston l'">4 



Small fruits in L903, .1. I'. Pillsbury L'.">4 



The ferment of the tea leaf. Ill, II. II. Mann l'.">J 



Browing chrysanthemums for a retail trade, F. ( lanning 255 



FORESTRY. 



pees, :i handbook of forest-botany, II. Marshall Ward 255 



Forest preservation and national prosperity 255 



European study for foresters, T. s. Woolsey, jr 256 



The forest flora of New South Wales, J. II. Maiden l'-"«; 



Tim her resources of Liberia, E. Lyon 256 



Planting red pine l*")<; 



Pitch pine in Pike County, Pennsylvania, .1. I lent ley, jr L'">n 



Cultivation of the cinchona tree in Java, R. M. Bartleman 257 



Zapote tree and chicle gum, A. .1. Lespinasse 257 



Guayule and its economic importance, R. Bndlich 257 



Daoutchouc plants, an agricultural-geographical study, I'. Reintgen 258 



Eucalyptus screens as tire protection belts 



A Buccessful root-pruning device, L. C. Miller 



The movement oi wood prices and its influence, B. E. Fernow 258 



