TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Treasurer's Report 1 



Director's Report 9 



Report of the Department of Agronomy : 



The use of commercial fertilizers 43 



Ground limestone for soil improvement 63 



Report of Department of Bacteriology : 



A comparison of the microscopical method and the plate method of 



counting bacteria in milk 79 



Cells in milk derived from the udder 117 



Bacteria of frozen soil 179 



Culture media for use in the plate method of counting soil bacteria 197 



Report of the Botanical Department: 



Does Cronartium riticola over-winter on the currant? 231 



Potato spraying experiments at Rush in 1913 244 



Dead-arm disease of grapes 251 



Report of the Chemical Department : 



Preparation, composition and property of caseinates of magnesium . . . 281 



Why sodium citrate prevents curdling of milk by rennin 286 



The use of sodium citrate for the determination of reverted phos- 

 phoric acid 293 



Studies relating to the chemistry of milk and casein 296 



Condition of casein and salts in milk 305 



A contribution to the chemistry of phytin 320 



Organic phosphoric acids of wheat bran 362 



Report of the Entomological Department: 



The cranberry toad-bug 383 



The cabbage maggot in relation to the growing of early cabbage 405 



Susceptibility to spraying mixtures of hibernating pear-psylla adults 



and their eggs 422 



Tree crickets injurious to orchard and garden fruit 452 



The cabbage aphis 497 



Report of the Horticultural Department : 



Tillage and sod mulch in the Hitchings orchard 503 



A comparison of tillage and sod mulch in an apple orchard 529 



Ten years' profits from an apple orchard 562 



A test of commercial fertilizers for grapes 572 



New or noteworthy fruits 602 



Ringing fruit trees 613 



Distribution of Station apples 623 



Culture of sweet corn 626 



Strawberries 629 



Currants 639 



Report on Inspection Work : 



Some facts about commercial fertilizers in New York State 649 



Seed tests made at the Station during 1913 690 



Analyses of materials sold as insecticides and fungicides 715 



Inspection of feeding-stuffs 735 



Report of analyses of samples of commercial fertilizers collected by the 



Commissioner of Agriculture during 1914 806 



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