LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



GARDEN 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Pace 



Treasurer's report 1 



Director's report .^. 6 



Report of the Department of Animal Husbandry: 



Commercial feeding stuffs in New York 35 



Animal food for poultry 75 



Report of the Bacteriological Department: 



The efficiency of a continuous pasteurizer at different temperatures. . 127 



Report of the Botanical Department: 



Leaf scorch of the sugar beet, cherry, cauliflower, and maple 153 



Notes on various plant diseases 168 



A fruit-disease survey of the Hudson Valley 184 



Report of the Chemical Department: 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers for the spring of 1889 221 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers for the fall of 1899 231 



Analyses of Paris green and other insecticides 237 



Report of the Department of Entomology: 



Combating the striped beetle on cucumbers 251 



The forest tent caterpillar 289 



Report of the Horticultural Department: 



Treatment for gooseberry mildew 321 



The New York apple-tree canker 331 



Fertilizing self-sterile grapes 361 



Common diseases and insects injurious to fruit 398 



Meterological record for 1899 467 



Index 479 



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