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TABLE OF CONTENT^.*'* 



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Letter of Transmittal 7 



Report of the Director 9 



Report of the Treasurer 13 



Report of the Chemist 15 



Report of the Botanist and Arboriculturist 16 



Report of the Cryptogomic Botanist and Plant Pathologist 17 



Report of the Entomologist 19 



Report of the Agriculturist 21 



Report of the Horticulturist : 22 



APPENDIX I. 



Bvilletin XXXVIII— The Cultivated Native Plums and Cherries 27 



I. The Plimis 31 



II. The Cherries 96 



Bulletin XXXIX — Creaming and Aerating Milk 113 



I. Cream Raising by Dilution 117 



II. Berrigan Separator 129 



III. Centrifugal Separation 132 



IV. Aeration and Aerators 136 



Bulletin XL — Removing Tassels from Corn 143 



Bulletin XLI — On the Comparative Merits of Steam and Hot Water for 



Greenhouse HeatingJ 157 



I. Experiments at Cornell 164 



II. Experiments elsewhere 189 



Bulletin XLII — Second Report upon Electro Horticulture 195 



Bulletin XLIII — Some Troubles of Winter Tomatoes 213 



Bulletin XLIV — The Pear Tree Psylla 225 



Bulletin XLV — Tomatoes 257 



BuUetin XLVI— Mulberries 303 



Bulletin XLVII — Feeding Lambs and Pigs 335 



I. Feeding Ensilage to Lambs 839 



II. Nitrogenous and Carbonaceous Rations for Lambs 841 



III. Nitrogenous and Carbonaceous Rations for Pigs 346 



IV. Nitrogenous and Carbonaceous Rations for Pigs, Second Generation, 351 



