state of New York— Department of Agriculture. 



SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF T£CB 



BOARD OK CONTROL 



OF THE 



NEW YORK 

 APTicilltnral F.YnprimPnt ^ta+i 



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The Report of the Commissloiior of Agriculture, for 1897, consists of 

 three volumes, as follows: 



Volume I. Fifth Annual Report of the regular work of the Department 

 of Agriculture, as required by section 5 of chapter 338 of the Laws of 1893. 



Volume II. Ninth Annual Report of the State Weather Bureau, and 

 Tenth Annual Report of the Cornell University Agricultui-al Experiment 

 Station, made to the Commissioner of Agriculture in compliance with the 

 provisions of section 87 of chapter 338 of the Laws of 1893. 



Volume III. Sixteenth Annual Report of the New York Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, made to the Commissioner of Agriculture in accord- 

 ance with the provisions of section 85 of chapter 338 of the Laws of 1893. 



WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD CO., 



STATE PRINTERS, 



NEW YORK AND ALBANY. 



1898. 



