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 with were not of the expensive sort, but selected grades, the 



bulletin becomes a practical treatise on the production of milk 



and butter fats for the dairymen throughout the entire United 



States. 



" The (Edema of the Tomato " was treated of in Bulletin No. 

 53. As the tomato is in universal cultivation, being in every 

 garden and plantation throughout the State, any disease which 

 affects this plant should of necessity receive immediate and care- 

 ful attention. The cryptogamic botanist has made a very care- 

 ful and extended study of this new form of plant disease ; the 

 summary contains instructions for its prevention. 



No publication of the year has brought to us so many requests 

 as the little bulletin of sixteen pages on "Dehorning." A few 

 years since the practice was begun in Illinois, and it has spread 

 far and wide throughout the herds in the northern States of the 

 Union. Much discussion has been had as to whether stock-raisers 

 were doing all they could to prevent loss and suffering caused by 

 wounds inflicted by one animal upon another. All who have 

 practiced dehorning agree that in the long run the removal of 

 the horns from cattle prevents a large amount of suffering and 

 loss. For several years the station has been experimenting not 

 only as to the best method of dehorning, but also as to the best 

 means of preventing the growth of horns. 



Bulletin No. 55.— " Green-House Notes, 1892-93," is really the 

 third report on electro-horticulture, and the second on steam and 



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hot water heating of greenhouses. While the first subject 

 treated of is not likely to aid the horticulturist in any large way, 

 yet the investigations are likely to lead indirectly to valuable 

 results. The second subject discussed is always of prime impor- 

 tance, as the chief cost in forcing plants is the heating of the 

 house, any discoveries which will lead to more economical meth- 

 ods will be of value. This bulletin also treats of the winter 

 raising of cauliflower. 



