1098 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



given in tlie reports of tlie director, agriculturist, liorticulturii^t, chemist, entomolo- 

 gist and botanist, and the zoologist and veterinarian. A financial statement for the 

 fiscal year ended June :!0, 1900, is included. 



Annual Report of Virginia Station, 1900 ( Virn'inia Sta. Rpt. 1900, pp. 14) ■— 

 This includes the organization list of the station, a report of the director containing 

 mainly a summary of the bulletins issued during the year, a financial statement f(ir 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, and brief departmental reports. 



Thirteenth Annual Report of West Virginia Station, 1900 {West Yirylula 

 Sta. ItpA. 1900, pp. 24). — A financial statement is given for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1900. The report of the director reviews at some length the different lines of 

 station work, and summarizes briefly some of the results of investigations previously 

 reported. A table is given showing the fjuantity and value of commercial fertilizers 

 sold in the State during the last 5 years. Brief statements are made on the results 

 of experiments on the effect of pressure in the preservation of perishable food stuffs 

 and on methods of preserving eggs. 



Tenth Annual Report of Wyoming- Station, 1900 ( Wyoining Sta. Rpt. 1900, 

 pp. 457). — This includes notes on the origin and i)urj)ose of the station, brief abstracts 

 of the bulletins issued during the year, plans of station work for 1900-1901, reports 

 of the director and heads of departments, a financial statement for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1900, several articles abstracted elsewhere, and reprints of Bulletin.s 

 41—45 of the station on the following subjects: Some experiments with subsoiling 

 (E. S. R., 11, p. 1026), some native forage plants for alkali soils (E. S. R., 12, p. 138), 

 alfalfa as a hay crop (E. S. R., 12, p. 430), alfalfa as a fertilizer (E. S. R., 12, p. 427), 

 and preliminary report on the artesian basins of Wyoming (seep. 1019). 



Crop Reporter ( V. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Statistics Crop Reporter, Vol. 2, Sos. 7, 

 pi>. <S; S, pp. 4; 9, pp. 8). — In addition to statistical data on the crops of the United 

 States in 1900, these numbers contain articles and notes on miscellaneous subjects, 

 including the following: Cereal crops of France, sugar and rice crops of India, prin- 

 cipal crops of Austria, the cotton-seed industry, the cotton crop of 1899-1900, the 

 corn crop of the world, Russian cereal crops, the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, Peruvian sugar statistics, apples in the United Kingdom, the jute crop 

 of Bengal in 1900, the Hungarian estimate of the world's grain crops, wheat crop of 

 Argentina, and principal crops of Germany in 1899-1900. 



Trade of Denmark, F. H. Hitchcock {U. S. Dept. Agr., Section of Foreign Markets 

 Bui. 9, pp. 88, map 1). — This is a detailed statistical review of the trade of Denmark 

 for a number of years. The imports during the calendar year 1898 were valued at 

 8123,874,758, and the exports at §87,464,660. About 90 per cent of the Danish com- 

 merce was carried on with the United Kingdom, (Termany, Sweden, the United States, 

 and Russia. The most important agricultural imports are Indian corn, butter, oil 

 cake and oil-cake meal, coffee, and wheat. Butter is the most important article of 

 export. 



Maryland Geological Survey, Allegany County {Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 

 Fress, 1900, pp. o2S, pis. SO, figs. 16). — This report contains, in addition to a brief 

 introduction dealing with the i^hysical features of Allegany County, articles on 

 physiography, by C. Abbe, jr.; geology, by C. C. O'Harra; mineral resources, by 

 W. B. Clark, C. C. O'Harra, R. B. Rowe, and H. Ries; soils, by C. W. Dorsey (see 

 p. 1023) ; climate, by O. L. Fassig (see p. 1017) ; hydrography, by F. H. Newell (see p. 

 1097); magnetic declination, by L. A. Bauer; forests, by G. B. Sudworth; and flora 

 and fauna, by C. Hart ^lerriam and E. A. Preble. 



