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The setting and dropping of fruits. — Circular No. 22 discusses 

 the whole matter of the setting and dropping of fruits. Failure to 

 set fruit even though the trees bear an abundance of blossoms, the 

 dropping of immature fruits, the biennial bearing habit of certain 

 apples and unfavorable weather at blooming time, are common 

 and seemingly unpreventable drawbacks to profitable fruit-growing. 

 In this circular the above problems are discussed, first, as having 

 to do with the formation of fruit buds; second, as having to do with 

 the development of the buds. 



Orcfvard management. — Circular No. 24 contains specifications for 

 fruit-growing in New York under the heads of selection of orchard 

 soils, selection of varieties, selecting trees, " pedigreed " trees, 

 stocks for trees, laying out the orchard, impotency of varieties, 

 time to set and age of tree, use of dynamite in digging holes, top- 

 working young trees, pruning at transplanting time, height of head, 

 form of head, pruning for wood, pruning for fruit, time to prune, 

 cultivating the orchard, fertilizing an orchard, inter-crops and cover- 

 crops, pests and mice and rabbits. 



PUBLICATIONS ISSUED DURING 1913. 



Bulletins. 



No. 357. February. An experiment on the control of current cane-necrosis by 

 summer pruning. F. C. Stewart. Pages 10. Popular edition, pages 2, fig. 1. 



No. 358. February. Studies in plant nutrition. I. a. The unlike feeding 

 capacity of different species of agricultural plants, b. The influence of fineness 

 upon the availability of ground phosphatic rock. c. The fertilizing value of an iron 

 ore waste. W. H. Jordan. Pages 20. 



No. 359. February. The grape leaf-hopper. F. Z. Hartzell. Pages 20, plates 6, 

 figs. 3. Popular edition, pages 4, plates 2, fig. 1. 



No. 360. February. Studies in plant nutrition. II. The necessary supply of 

 plant food. W. H. Jordan. Pages 25, figs. 8. 



No. 361. March. Apples: Old and new. U. P. Hedrick and G. H. Howe. Pages 

 57. Popular edition, pages 12, fig. 1. 



No. 362. February. Seed tests made at the Station during 1912. M. T. Munn. 

 Pages 27. Popular edition, pages 10, fig. 1. 



No. 363. April. The financial stimulus in city milk production. H. A. Harding 

 and J. D. Brew. Pages 14, fig. 1. Popular edition, pages 8, fig. 1. 



No. 364. July. New or noteworthy fruits. U. P. Hedrick. Page3 17, colored 

 plates 4. Popular edition, pages 10, colored plate 1, fig. 1. 



No. 365. August. The effect of certain dairy operations upon the germ content 

 of milk. H. A. Harding, G. L. Ruehle, J. K. Wilson, and G. A. Smith. Pages 37. 

 Popular edition, pages 8, fig. 1. 



No. 366. August. Inspection of feeding stuffs. Pages 122. 



No. 367. October. The persistence of the potato late-blight fungus in the soil. 

 F. C. Stewart. Pages 5. Popular edition, pages 2, fig. 1. 



