TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Treasurer's report 1 



Director's report 6 



Report of the Department of Animal Husbandry : 



The economy of using animal food in poultry feeding 45 



Report of the Botanical Department : 



Spraying cucumbers in the season of 1898 67 



Report of the Chemical Department : 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers for the spring of 1898 93 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers for the fall of 1898 276 



Report of the Department of Entomology : 



The cottonwood leaf -beetle 823 



Green arsenite ,. 340 



The raspberry saw-fly 845 



Preliminary notes on the grape-vine flea beetle 859 



The apple tree tent caterpillar 865 



Spraying experiments against the spring canker worm 885 



A spraying mixture for cauliflower and cabbage worms , 889 



Report of the Department of Field Crops : 



Commercial fertilizers for potatoes 417 



Sugar beet investigations in 1898 480 



Report of th« Horticultural Department : 



A comparison of soil mixtures for forcing head lettuce 461 



Experiments with commercial fertilizers in forcing head lettuce 483 



Variety tests of strawberries, raspberries and blackberries 492 



Experiments in ringing grape-vines 510 



Self fertility of the grape 518 



Cherries : Lutovka and Brusseler Braun 564 



Meteorological record for 1898 567 



Index 585 



