TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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Treasurer's Report 1 



Report of Acting Director and Chemist 5 



Improvements and additions 6 



Outline of different reports 6 



Bulletins published during 1895 9 



Tabulated statement of laboratory work 10 



Arrangement of chemical worl£ 11 



Addresses 11 



Comparative profits derived from selling milk, butter, cream and 



cheese 11 



Comparative field-tests of commercial fertilizers used in raising 



potatoes 25 



The chemistry of plants, plant-foods and soils 37 



Description of materials used as fertilizers 59 



The purchase and use of fertilizers 82 



The arithmetic of fertilizers 125 



Average composition and value of different fertilizing materials 



and farm crops 142 



The New York Fertilizer Law 149 



Analyses of fertilizers collected during the spring of 1895 156 



Analyses of fertilizers collected during the fall of 1895 198 



Gifts to the Station 230 



Newspapers and periodicals presented to the Station 239 



Rules of Station governing gratuitous chemical analyses for pri- 

 vate persons 241 



Report of Horticulturist: 



Summary of work in 1895 247 



Special work in the second judicial department 248 



Testing fruits 249 



Variety test of apples and crab-apples 251 



List of pears in Station orchards 267 



List of quinces in Station orchards 268 



Variety test of apricots 268 



Lutovka cherry 274 



Variety test of grapes 274 



Currant culture and report on varieties 280 



Variety tests of blackberries and dewberries 302 



