Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, bibliographies, and listings for Spanish edition publications from the Porto Rico station. Name and subject indexes start on page 1207.

Volume provides a summary of the progress of each agricultural experiment station. Also includes statistics, discussions of foreign investigations, and selected studies. Name index starts on page 751.

Text describes the Waco area lying in McLennan and Bosque Counties in Texas. Included are location and boundaries of the area, history of settlement and agricultural development, climate, physiography and geology, soils, agricultural methods, and agricultural conditions.

Soil survey covering parts of Hays, Caldwell, Bastrop, and Guadalupe Counties, Texas. Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, soils, and irrigation of the San Marcos area.

Text describes agricultural development, climate, physiography and geology, soils, agricultural methods, and agricultural conditions of Lee County, Texas.

Text describes the history, climate, physiography and geology, soils, and agricultural conditions of Houston County, Texas.

Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of naval correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Navies discussing their operations. According to the introduction in the first volume, the first series "embraces the reports, orders, and correspondence, both Union and Confederate, relating to all naval operations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and inland waters of the United States during the war of the rebellion, together with the operations of vessels acting singly, either as cruisers or privateers, in different parts of the world. These reports are accompanied by such diagrams and maps as may be necessary" (pp. ix-x). Index starts on page 937.