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the solution of ti muuhcr of sciciititic proMonis of o-cncrul iinportiuico. 

 In chemistry an investigation has been made of the ettect of formalin 

 on the allmmin in milk with results which ma}" have an impoitant 

 bearing on the relation of formalin as a preservative to the dicrcsti- 

 bility of milk. Other preservatives will be investio;ated. Studies 

 have been made of fermentation in the silo, the pink rot of apples, 

 diseases and culture of (^insenj^, and a number of insects of the vine- 

 yard and orchard. The work in animal husbandry has been a con- 

 tinuation of feeding- experiments with daii'v cows and poultrv. Regard- 

 ing the latter work three bulletins have been pul)lislied on the cost of 

 eg<»; production. The new Danish system of milking has been under 

 trial and results have beenpul)lished. Cooperative work with farmers 

 has been continued along several lines in agronom}" and in horticulture, 

 the latter being concerned principallv with insects in the vineyard, 

 cover crops, and the use of cheese-cloth shades for the growing of 

 various crops. The station has cooperated with the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry of this Department in sugar-beet investigations. 



The Cornell Station is undergoing a complete reorganization under 

 the manag(Muent of the new director, who took charge July 1, llXCi. 

 It is the policy of the new management to organize several strong 

 departments, with more complete equipment and greater independence 

 of action than formerly existed. Already departments of agronomy, 

 animal hus})andry, dairying, soils, horticulture, and poultr}" husbandry 

 have been more or less full}' organized. At the same time the courses 

 of study in the college of agriculture are being developed and strength- 

 ened, and agriculture will share equally with mechanic arts in the 

 land-grant and Morrill funds. The school of forestry in th«> college 

 has been discontinued, owing to the failure of the last legislature to 

 make appropriation for its support. With a strong statl' of specialists, 

 and with prospects for greatly improved facilities, the outlook for 

 investigations of a high character at the Cornell Station are very 

 encouraging. . 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted at the Cornell Statioji during 

 the past year were as follows: Chemistry — study of soils, feeding 

 stuti's, dairy products, insecticides, causes of injury to foliage ])y Bor- 

 deaux mixture; fertilizers; Held experiments — tests of rotations, 

 legumes, and fertilizers, tillage and fertilizer experiments with pota- 

 toes, l)eans, buckwheat, etc., plat experiments with grasses; horticul- 

 ture — forcing strawberries, tree fruits, and nmshrooms, studies of 

 Japanese plums and methods of spraying; diseases of plants — fungus 

 diseajses of forest and shade trees, study of the role of fungi in render- 

 ing available the j)lant food in dejid wood, study of edible fungi and of 



