CONTENTS. Ill 



FIELD CROPS. 



Page. 



Field experiments, J. G. Lee 841 



Report of the agriculturist, E. R. Lloyd 849 



Report of the assistant agriculturist, R. S. Shaw 849 



Results of fertilizer experiments Avith sulphate of ammonia, Kloepfer 843 



Fertilizer experiments with Thcmas slag and nitrate of soda supplementary to 



barnyard manure, Lilienthal 843 



Inoculation of soils, G. W. Herrick .• 843 



Researches on the culture of blue lupines, P. P. Deherain and E. Demoussy. . 844 



Varieties of cotton, E. R. Lloyd 844 



Potato improvement and culture, M. Fischer 845 



Lime experiments with potatoes on light marsh soil, Lilienthal 845 



Experiments in the culture of the sugar beet in Nebraska, H. H. Nicholson 



and T. L. Lyon 846 



Report of wheat raisers, J. Fields 850 



Experiments with wheat, 1900, F. C. Burtis and J. G. Kerr 846 



Field experiments with wheat, J. F. Hickman 848 



HORTICULTURE. 



Cabbage — fertilizers, varieties, shipping; cauliflower — varieties and shipping, 



B. C. Pittuck and S. A. McHenry 850 



The use of chemical manures on garden vegetables, G. Truffaut and Denaiffe. . 851 



Report of the horticulturist, S. M. Emery 853 



Top-working apple trees, G. H. Powell 852 



Tests of small fruit, J. Troop 854 



Strawberries, F. S. Earle 854 



Resistance of strawberries to frost, E. V. AVilcox 854 



Experiments on the use of nitrate of soda in the culture of grapes, E. Marre . . 852 



Experiments with manures on vines, E. Zacharewicz 852 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Some field experiments with formalin, M. B. Thomas 855 



Treatment of seed oats for smut, E. V. Wilcox 859 



Seed treatment for the prevention of beet diseases, M. Hoffman 855 



Potato scab, E. V. Wilcox _ 859 



The rotting of greenhouse lettuce, G. E. Stone and R. E. Smith 856 



Orange culture and diseases, J. Borg 857 



A tig disease, G. Massee 858 



The sulphuring of grapes, F. Simonet 858 



IMercury in the products of vines sprayed with mercurial mixtures, L. Vignon 



and J. Perraud 858 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Proceedings of the twelfth annual meeting of the Association of Economic 



Entomologists 860 



First report on insect pests for 1899, F. V. Theol^ald 862 



Report of the botanist and entomologist, G. W. Herrick 867 



The Hessian fly in 1899 and 1900, F. M. Webster 862 



The Hessian fly in West ^'irginia and how to prevent losses from its ravages, 



A. D. Hopkins <S63 



Losses caused by the grain aphis, E. V. Wilcox 868 



Experiments with insecticides upon potatoes, C. D. Woods 863 



