10 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



awakening thought and emphasizing principles. None of these 

 experiments are yet given in our reports or to the public through 

 the press. 



Twelve bulletins have been published during the year, and I am 

 certain that no previous year has been so fruitful of valuable 

 reisuLlts. 



The first bulletin of the year, No. 38, treats of plums and cher- 

 ries; it is the most complete publication of its kind and is prized 

 by nurserymen and fruit-growers, because heretofore little was 

 kno"SNTi in regard to the wild types of plums and chemes, maay 

 of which form the foundation of improved varieties. What little 

 literature there was on the subject was widely scattered and 

 inaccessible. In bringing all available knowledge together and 

 arranging it logically a valuable work has been accomplished. 



As you are well aware, the dairy industry of New York is a 

 great one. Bulletin No. 39 is an exhaustive and painstaking effort 

 to discover the value, if any, of a new cream separator, and to 

 also further investigate the subject of hastening cream raising 

 by dilution, and the effect of aeration of milk and the value of 

 aerators. The above-named subjects are always live ones and 

 of great interest to the dairy public. 



Experiments in removing the tassels from com have been 

 continued and expanded. This subject is of prime importance, 

 as it is now believed, from the experiments so far conducted at 

 this station and others, that under certain conditions the yield 

 of corn can be greatly increased by removing a largti portion of 

 the tassels. In every case, so far as I know, where the work 

 has been properly done and the season has been at aU dry, 

 a great increase in yield has been secured by detasseling. 



Bulletin No. 41 contains the results secured by long and careful 

 investigations as to the most economical method of heating 

 green-houses. So expensive is the work of heating large areas 

 of covered surface in forcing-houses, that any light upon this 

 subject is of prime importance to all horticulturists. 



Bulletin 42 is the second report on .electro-horticulture. 

 Whether this method of stimulating plants to make a larger 

 and an earlier growth can be made economically useful has not 



