158 REPORT OF t>FFlCE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



in orcliiu-ds (spraying- with k(M-o.scnc and crude potrolcuni); a study of 

 some of the suits foiincd hy casein and paracasein with acids; methods 

 for the (Estimation of the ])roteolytic compounds contained in cheese 

 and milk; re[)ort of analyses of conunercial fertiliz'U's for the spring 

 and fall of 15»(i2; inspection of feeding stuffs; variety test of straw- 

 berries (with popular edition); some of the compounds present in 

 American Cheddar cheese; two universal troubles of apple foliage 

 (with popular edition); potato spraying experiments in 1902; report 

 of analyses of Paris green and other insecticides in lt>02; investiga- 

 tions concerning the self-fertility of the grape, 1900-1902: 111, a stud}' 

 of grape pollen (with popular edition); control or rusty spot in cheese 

 factories (with popular edition); raspberry cane blight and raspberry 

 yellows (with ])opular edition); San Jose scale investigations, IV (with 

 popular edition); a destructive apple rot following scab (with popular 

 edition); director's report for 1902; some facts about conunercial fer- 

 tilizers in New York State; the relation of carbon dioxid to proteolysis 

 in the ripening of Cheddar cheese; combating the black rot of cabbage 

 by the removal of affected leaves (with popular edition). 



Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca. 

 Department of Cornell University. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Trustees — Station Council: Jacob G. Schurmau ( President of the University), 

 Franklin C. Cornell, Liberty H. Bailey, Eninionw L. Williams {Treasurer of the Uni- 

 versity), John H. Comstock, and Thomas F. Hunt. 



STATION STAFF. 



L. H. Bailey, M. S., Director. J. L. Stone, B. S. \., Assistant Agronomist. 



G. C. Caldwell, B. S., Ph. D., Chemist. Samuel Fraser, Assistant Agronomist. 



J. H. Comstock, B. S., Entomologist. R. S. Northrop, B. S., Assistant Horticul- 

 H. H. AVing, B. Agr., M. S., Animal turist. 



Husbandman. J. M. Van Hook, M. A., Assistant Plant 

 G. F. Atkinson, Ph. B., Botanist. Pathologist. 



John Craig, M. S., Horticulturist. H. H. AVhetzel, B. A., Assistant Plant 

 T. F. Hunt, M. S., Agronomist. Pathologist. 



R. A. Pearson, M. S., Dairy Industry. J. W. Gilmore, B. S. A., Assistant Agron- 

 J. A. Bonsteel, Ph. J)., Soil Investigations. omist. 



M. V. Slingerland, B. S., Assistant Ento- J. A. Bizzell, Assistant Chemist. 



mologist. S. W. Fletcher, M. S., Ph. D., Assistant 

 G. W. Cavanaugh, B. S. A., Assistant Horticulturist. 



Chemist. J. i\I. Trueman, Assistant Animal Hus- 

 J. E. Rice, B. S. A., Poultry Husband- bandman, Dairy Industry. 



man. E. A. Butler, Clerk. 



C. E. Hunn, Assistant Horticulturist. Lizzie V. Maloney, Stenographer. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK:. 



The New York Cornell Station has continued its investigations along 

 nearly the same lines as formerly, gning prominence on the one hand 

 to problems of immediate practical importance, and on the other to 



