CONTENTS. Ill 



I'fiRe. 



Notes on grasses, J. R. Fain 337 



Why f^rasses fail, A. M. 8oule 337 



Hop culture in California, D. Flint 338 



Kafir corn, H. M. Cottrcll, D. li. Otis, and J. G. Haney 332 



Fertilizer experiment with potatoes, H. J. Wheeler and J. A. Tillinghast 333 



Soil inoculation for soy beans, H. I\I. Cottrell, D. H. Otis, and J. G. Haney 333 



Sugar-beet experiments during 1899, A. J. McClatchie 334 



Sugar beets, 1899, J. T. Willard and R. W. Clothier 334 



Sugar-beet investigations for 1899, J. L. Stone and L. A. Clinton 335 



Bulk fermentation of Connecticut tobacco, M. L. Floyd 335 



Field fertilizer experiments on tobacco, W. Frear 339 



Experiments with Alinit on winter wheat, R. Salzer 336 



nOKTICULTURE. 



Summary of the work of the horticultural division for the year 1899, S. T. 



Maynard 344 



Report of the assistant in horticulture, A. T. Jordan 344 



Experiments to determine the amount of water used by crops, H. von Schrenck 



andH.C. Irish 340 



Notes on vegetables, J. Craig 340 



Experiments with muskmelons, F. W. Rane 341 



Onion growing, F. A. Huntley 342 



Onions, R. H. Garrahan 345 



Orchard management, J. C. Blair 345 



The renovation of unproductive orchards. Why are old orchards unproduc- 

 tive? C. A. Keffer 345 



Fertilizers for the orchard, C. A. INIooers 345 



Irrigation in fruit growing, E. J. Wickson 345 



The Oregon prune: Its composition, food value, soil draft, G. W. Shaw 343 



Grape growing in the South, S. M. Tracy 346 



The resistance to drought of some American vines, C. Grimaldo 843 



A new suT)stitute for rubl)er 344 



Experiments with lawn grasses, B. D. Halsted 347 



SEEWS — WEEDS. 



Seed selection, P. 0. Vanatter 349 



Clover seed, A. D. Selby 349 



The germination of seeds as affected by certain chemical fertilizers, G. H. 



Hicks '. 347 



Investigations on the role of oxygen in germination, P. Maze 348 



Experiments with weeds, B. D. Halsted 350 



The destruction of weeds in cereal crops l)y means of solutions of chemicals 



sprayed up6n the foliage, H. L. Bolley 349 



The extermination of weeds, E. Vi. Hilgard 350 



DISEASES OF PL.VNTS. 



Report of the l)otanist, B. D. Halsted 351 



Investigations of plant diseases, A. D. Sslby 359 



Cultures of Uredinea? in 1899, J. C. Arthur 354 



The smuts of Illinois agricultural plants, G. P. Clinton : 355 



Variations in the amount of leaf curl of the peach in the light of weather con- 

 ditions, A. D. Selby 358 



A parasite of carnation rust, F. II. Blodgett 358 



Plasmodiopliom bragsiar, S. Nawaschin 358 



