Minutes of the annual meeting of the Salado Baptist Association in Texas include accounts of proceedings at the session, committee reports, statistics regarding Baptist churches in Texas, and other relevant notes and commentaries.

Report discussing and promoting alfalfa for use as hay and as a soiling crop. Discussion includes instructions for planting, weed and pest control, and valuable uses of an alfalfa crop.

Report discussing techniques for soil drainage, including tile-drainage and open drains.

Report discussing the proper cultivation of the sugar beet, which is considered a crop with great potential for the agricultural industry.

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Soil Moisture, Fertility of Soils, Cover Crops for Orchards, Cultivating v. Cropping Orchards, Transplanting Trees, Fecundity of Swine, Food Value of Eggs, Starch from Sweet Potatoes, the Toad as a Friend of the Farmer.

Report promoting the cultivation of the cowpea as a forage plant because of it adaptability to a wide variety of soils and agricultural conditions.

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Sugar Beets on Alkali Soils, Planting and Replanting Corn, Improvement of Sorghum, Improved Culture of Potatoes, Second-Crop Potatoes for Seed, Cold v. Warm Water for Plants, Forcing Head Lettuce, the Date Palm in the United States, the Codling Moth, Jerusalem Artichokes for Pigs, Feeding Calves, Pasteurization in Butter Making, Gassy and Tainted Curds, Pure Cultures in Cheese Making.

Report discussing basic suggestions for cultivating vegetable gardens in farm, suburban, and city environments.

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Manure from Cows, Plants for Alkali Soils, Influence of Alkali on Plants, Feeding Value of the Corn Plant, Sows and Pigs at Farrowing Time, the Soy Bean as a Feeding Stuff, Alfalfa Hay for Hogs, Animal Matter for Poultry, Water and Animal Diseases, Construction and Cooling of Cheese-Curing Rooms, and Irrigation Investigations.

Report summarizing the contents of papers read at the Interstate Farmers' Convention held at Vicksburg, Mississippi, February 8-10, 1899. Topics discussed include soil properties, cotton products, livestock farming and feeding, horticulture, agricultural education, forage crops, and the Weather Bureau. The material collected in this report is intended primarily for residents of the South and the Southwest.

Report discussing many of the abundant types of forage plants common in the Southern United States. The increasing profitability of raising livestock and the suitability of soils in the Southern United States for forage plants means pastures in the region hold great potential.

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Excessive Irrigation, Cross-Pollination of Plums, Root Pruning of Fruit Trees, the Oxeye Daisy, Poisoning by Wild Cherry Leaves, Preserving Eggs, Gestation in Cows, the Long Clam, Silage for Horses and Hogs, Commercial Butter Cultures with Pasteurized Cream, and the Stave Silo.

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Seaweed, the Tillering of Grains, Fertilizers for Garden Crops, Sweet Corn and Pole Beans Under Glass, Girdling Grapevines, Cereal Breakfast Foods, Food Value of Stone Fruits, When to Cut Alfalfa, Spontaneous Combustion of Hay, Preservation of Milk by Pressure, Cream Raising by Dilution.

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Fertilizer Requirements of Crops, Persimmons, Forcing Rhubarb, Grinding Corn for Cows, Waste in Feeding Cornstalks, Molasses for Farm Animals, Feeding Ducks, Cost of Raising Calves, Feeding Calves with Milk of Tuberculous Cows, Killing the Germs of Tuberculosis in Milk, Ropy Milk and Cream, Dairy Salt.