New Yokk Agricultural Experiment Station. 25 



supply the smallest amount of fertilizer supported the maximum 

 crop. 



Considering the varying market price of onions from one year 

 to another and the various vicissitudes to which the crop is sub- 

 jected, the use of the larger quantities of fertilizer (above 500 

 lbs.) was attended by danger of financial loss. 



Effect of manures on sugar heets. — These experiments were 

 undertaken to tesl: the accuracy of the statement that sugar 

 beets are of an inferior quality when grown on land to which 

 stable manure is applied in the spring. 



The experiments have been conducted during four consecutive 

 years, mostly on the Station farm. Comparisons have been made 

 of the quality of beets not manured, those grown with commer- 

 cial fertilizer, mostly 1000 lbs. per acre, and those grown on land 

 receiving in the spring, before planting the beets, from 40,000 

 lbs. to 80,000 lbs. stable manure per acre. Beets from at least 

 six varieties of seed were grown during the four years. 



The results are almost unanimous in one direction. The beets 

 have been of high quality with all three methods of treatment, 

 averaging somewhat better with the farm manure than with no 

 manure or with commercial fertilizers. 



BULLErriNS PUBLISHE5D IN 1901. 



No. 197. October. — The food source of milk fat; with studies 

 on the nutrition of milch cows. W. H. Jordan, C. 

 G. Jenter and F. D. Fuller. Pages 32. 



No. 198. November. — Inspection of feeding stuffs, 1900-1901. 

 W. n. Jordan and C. G. Jenter. Pages 29. 



No. 199. November. — An epidemic of currant anthracnose. F. 

 C. Stewart and H. J. Eustace. Pages 18, plate 1. 



No. 200. November. — Notes from the Botanical Department: 

 Trouble with pears in a nursery cellar; shot-hole 

 fungus on cherry fruit pedicels; anthracnose of yel- 

 low toad-flax; imperfect fertilization of peaches; 

 tile drain clogged by fungus; a fungus in refrigera- 

 tors. F. C. Stewart and H. J Eustace. Pages 21, 

 plates 4. 



