Report of the Chemist. 



To the Director of the Cornell Iniversity Agricultural Experiment 

 Station: 



Sir. — One hundred and eighty-four samples were analyzed in 

 the chemical laboratory of the Experiment Station during the 

 year 1896, as follows: 



Five samples of milk, for fat; four samples of manure leach- 

 ings, for fertilizing value; fifteen samples of manures, ditto; four- 

 teen samples of grain, straw and chaff, ditto; six samples of 

 soil, for nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash; six samples of 

 clover, for nitrogen; complete analyses of eleven samples of 

 straws, grain and chaff; sixteen samples of corn and five samples 

 of beans, for fodder value; sixty-seven samples of soils, for mois- 

 ture; nineteen samples of grapes, for sugar and acid; three 

 samples of Paris green, for arsenic; four complete analyses of 

 fertilizers; four samples of sugar beets, for sugar; one sample 

 of corn, for moisture; and one sample of " Callerine," a food 

 preservative. 



Investigations are in hand on the urine of the horse, the re- 

 lation of the composition of celery to its quality and the estima- 

 tion of the pentosans. 



G. C. CALDWELL. 



