TAELE OF CONTENTS. 



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Treasurer's Report 



Director's Report 9 



Report of the Department of Bacteriology: 



The financial stimulus in city milk production 37 



The effect of certain dairy operations upon the germ content of milk 51 



A study of the udder flora of cows 88 



An efficient electrical incubator 126 



Report of the Department of Botany: 



An experiment on the control of currant cane necrosis by summer pruning . . 143 



Seed tests made at the Station during 1912 153 



The persistence of the potato late-blight fungus ISO 



The injurious effects of formaldehyde gas on potato tubers 185 



The efficiency of formaldehyde in the treatment of seed potatoes for 



Rhizoctonia 217 



Report of the Department of Chemistry: 



Studies in plant nutrition, 1 235 



Studies in plant nutrition, II 255 



< The action of rennin on casein 280 



Report of the Department of Entomology: 



The grape leaf-hopper 287 



The false tarnished plant-bug as a pear pest 308 



Zinc arsenite as an insecticide 330 



The influence of temperature and moisture on fumigation 344 



The pear psylla 353 



The false tarnished plant-bug on pears 361 



The control of plant-lice on apple trees 365 



Apple insects 3/2 



Report of the Department of Horticulture: 



Apples: old and new 385 



New or noteworthy fruits 442 



The setting and dropping of fruits 459 



Orchard management 471 



Report on inspection work: 



Inspection of feeding stuffs 485 



Report of analyses of commercial fertilizers collected by the Commissioner 



of Agriculture during 1913 607 



Appendix: 



" Popular Editions " of Station bulletins: 



Pruning fails to control a currant disease 725 



Controlling grape leaf -hoppers in 1912 727. 



The best apples for New York state 730 



Does the farmer get pure seeds? 741 



The price control factor in the pure milk problem 749 



Some good fruits recently grown 755 



Some unessential dairy refinements 763 



Does winter kill potato blight in the soil? 770 



A pear-deforming plant-bug 771 



Some faults in formaldehyde disinfection of potatoes 774 



Periodicals received by the Station in 1913 782 



Meteorological records for 1913 790 



Index • • 803 



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