IV CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Further notes on the pole burn of tobacco, W. C. Sturgis 568 



On fractional fertilization of muskmelons as a preventive of disease, W. C. 



Sturgis 568 



Notes on some tomato diseases, F. S. Earle 569 



Observations on tomato blight, C. E. Mead 570 



Fruit diseases and how to treat them, L. C. Corbett 573 



Dry rot, brown sjxit, or Baldwin spot of apples, W. T. Macoun 570 



On the prevention of raspberry antiiracnose by cultural methods, W. C. 



Sturgis 570 



White rot of the grape, L. Ravaz 571 



Stem-rot disease of carnations, W. E. Britton 571 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Report of the entomologist, J. Fletcher 574 



Report of the entomologist, A. D. Hopkins 580 



Insect notes, W. E. Britton 580 



Some insects of the year 1899, R. H. Pettit 575 



How insects are studied at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, F. M. 



Webster 580 



A recent observation on Filaria nocturna in Culex, G. C. Low 575 



Note on Collops bipunciatus, T. D. A. Cockerell 580 



The clover-root borer {Hi/lastes obscurus) , F. M. Webstei- 576 



Combating the gypsy moth {Forthttria dispar) , Y. Sjostedt 576 



A new method of combating the gypsy moth, Rurig 577 



Washes and sprays for combating plant lice, woolly aphis, and similar pests, 



E. Fleischer 578 



Some important insecticides, fungicides, and apparatus for their application, 



W. G. Johnson, C. O. Townsend, and H. P. Gould 581 



Some important spraying apparatus and other accessories, H. P. Gould 581 



A test of si)ray nozzles, N. O. Booth 578 



FOODS ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Preliminarj' report upon the composition and properties of the fat in "firm" 



and " soft " pork, F. T. Shutt 581 



Coffee substitutes, C. D. Woods and L. H. Merrill 586 



Inspection and analyses of foods, M. A. Scovell 586 



Feeding-stuff inspection, C. D. Woods and J. M. Bartlett 587 



Potato pomace, J. M. Bartlett 587 



Feeding nonsaccharine sorghums, C. E. Mead 587 



Feeding experiments with steers to test the value of cocoa shells, F. Albert... 582 



The value of maize-germ-molasses feed for fattening lambs, F. Albert 583 



Experiments with lambs to study the effect of different concentrated feeding 



stuffs on the charat^ter of the tallow, F. Albert 583 



Feeding experiments with pigs on the value of sugar and iiiHuence of increased 



protein consumption, F. Albert 583 



Report of the poultry manager, A. G. Gill^ert 585 



Feeding chickens for growth, G. M. Go well 585 



Breeding for egg production, G. M. Gowell 586 



DAIRY FARMING — DAIRY'ING. 



Feeding experiments with palm-nut cake, palm-nut residue, linseed meal, 

 castor-bean meal, and peanut meal for milch cows, E. Raniin, C. ^lomsen, 



and T. Schuniachcr 589 



