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Report of Horticulturist — Continued). page. 



Variety tests of raspberries 304 



Variety test of strawberries 311 



Productiveness of grapes as affected by ttie self-fertilization of their 



blossoms 320 



Forcing lettuce in pots 326 



Mushrooms as a greenhouse crop 331 



Raspberry anthracnose 342 



Treatment of common diseases and insects injurious to fruits and 



vegetables 345 



Report of First Assistant 391 



Cattle feeding 391 



Corn silage for milch cows 393 



Summary of feeding trials with corn silage 451 



Miscellaneous feeding trials 452 



Pig feeding 475 



Poultry 494 



Summary of feeding trial with laying hens 516 



Report of Mycologist 519 



Two destructive lily diseases 520 



Prevention of cabbage club-root 525 



Spraying tomatoes 529 



A disease of Norway maples 531 



Witches' brooms on cherry trees 532 



Observations on Exobasidium Peckii, etc 534 



Inoculation experiments with gymnosporangium macropus 535 



Belted apples and pears t 544 



A new leaf-spot disease of apples 545 



Report of Entomologists: 



The oali scale at Geneva, N. Y 550 



The white-marli Tussock-moth in Western New York 552 



The cotton-wood leaf -beetle at Liverpool, N. Y 554 



The corn-worm 559 



The striped cucumber-beetle 566 



The New York plum lecanium 574 



A preliminary report of experiments with remedies for the potato 



flea-beetle 596 



Notes of the season 599 



Notes on remedies for the pernicious and other scale insects 605 



The bramble or blackberry flea louse, Trioza tripuncatata 619 



The spinnach leaf maggot, Pegomyia vieina 625 



