Bulletin 159. January, 1899. 



Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, 



ITHACA, N. Y. 



AN EFFORT TO 



HELP THE FARMER 



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LI BRA 'r- 



NEW 



BOJANk 



Being the Fifth Report to the Commissioner of Agriculture of Progress 

 of Work done under Chapter 67, Laws of 1898 (the Nixon Bill), 

 to Promote the Extension of Agricultural Knowledge. 



PUBI^ISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY. 



ITHACA, N. Y. 



1899. 



