924 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Eighteenth Annual Report of New York Cornell Station, 1905 (New York 

 Cornell Sta. Rpt. 1905, pp. XXIX+525+46).— This report, which is not in- 

 tended for general distribution, contains the organization list of the station, 

 reports of the director and heads of departments, a financial statement for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1905, and reprints of Bulletins 221-232 of the station 

 on the following subjects : 



Alfalfa in New York (E. S. R., 16, p. 355) ; record of an attempt to increase 

 the fat in milk by means of liberal feeding (E. S. R., 10. p. 695) ; the grape- 

 berry moth (E. S. R. 16, p. 681) : two grape pests (E. S. R.. 16, p. 681) ; bovine 

 tuberculosis (E. S. R. 16, 'p. 1024) ; an apple orchard survey of Wayne County, 

 Now York— I, The apple industry (E. S. R, 17, p. 143) ; II, Geology (E. S. R., 

 17, p. 119); mushroom growing for amateurs (E. S. R., 17, p. 141); potato 

 growing in New York (E. S. R., 17, p. 133) ; an apple orchard survey of 

 Orleans County (E. S. R., 17, p. 367) ; quality in potatoes (E. S. R., 17, p. 358) ; 

 forcing strawberries (E. S. R. 17, p. 467) ; notes on the forcing of tomatoes, 

 cucumbers, and melons (E. S. R., 17, p. 463) ; and experiments on the influence 

 of fertilizers upon the yield of timothy hay when grown on Dunkirk clay loam 

 in Tompkins County. New York (E. S. R., 17, p. 461). 



Director's report for 1905, W. H. Jordan (New York State Sta. Bui. 274, pp. 

 501-518). — This is a somewhat detailed report of the work of the station during 

 the year. 



Eighteenth Annual Report of Rhode Island Station, 1905 (Rhode Island 

 Sta. Rpt. 1905. pp. 169-352 4- VII). — This contains the organization list of the 

 station, a report of the director on the different lines of station work, and 

 more detailed reports of the different divisions which are noted elsewhere, a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1905, list of exchanges, 

 and an index to the report and bulletins issued during the year. 



The report also contains the following articles which have already been 

 noted from other sources : The effect of postponing the ammonium-citrate 

 treatment of the water-insoluble portion of fertilizers (E. S. R, 16, p. 322) ; 

 phosphoric acid determinations by the method of ignition with magnesium 

 nitrate and by that of digestion with acids (E. S. R., 16, p. 843) ; notes on the 

 use of acetic and of oxalic acid for extracting the charred material in preparing 

 ash (E. S. R, 17, p. 432) ; and the phosphoric acid removed by crops by dilute 

 nitric acid and by ammonium hydroxid from a limed and unlimed soil receiving 

 various phosphates (E. S. R, 17, p. 430). 



Annual Report of Virginia Station, 1905 (Virginia Sta. Rpt. 1905, pp. 

 36). — This contains the organization list, a report of the director on the work of 

 the station during the year, a financial statement for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1905, a summary of meteorological observations (see also p. 836), and 

 departmental reports, some of which are noted elsewhere. 



Crop Reporter (V. S. Dent. Agr., Bur. Statis. Crop Reporter, vol 7, Nos. 9, 

 pp. 79-86; 10, pp. 87-94). — These numbers contain brief statistical reports on the 

 tobacco crop of 1905, by typos; colonial cotton; rice production in the United 

 States ; cotton crop of the Department of Agriculture compared with the reports 

 of the Census Bureau ; crops of Russia ; the corn and tomato pack in 1905 ; crop 

 conditions in Europe; the cotton crop of British India; farm animals in the 

 United States ; oil seeds in British India ; crops of Germany ; foreign trade in 

 the United States for 1905 ; the world's meat trade ; demand for durum wheat ; 

 and numerous other topics. 



