34 Director's Report of Experiment Station. 



Bulletins Published in 1896. 



Sixteen bulletins have been published during the past year, 

 containing 317 pages. 



No. 98. Plum leaf spot. Cherry leaf spot. Fruit rot. By S. 



A. Beach. 

 *No. 99. The spinach leaf maggot or miner. By F. A. 



Sirrine. 

 *No. 100. Combating carnation rust. By F. C. Stewart. 

 *No. 101. Potato diseases on Long Island in the season of 



1895. By F. C. Stewart. 

 No. 102. Silage and silos. By W. P. Wheeler. 

 No. 103. Provisions of the new fertilizer law of New York, 



By L. L. Van Slyke. 

 No. 104. Notes on the recent invasion of the army worm. By 



V. H. Lowe. 

 No. 105. Effects of drouth upon milk production. By L. L. 



Van Slyke. 

 No. 106. Feeding experiments with laying hens. The rela- 

 tive eflSciency of whole and ground grains. By W. P. 



Wheeler. 

 No. 107. Report of analyses of commercial fertilizers for the 



spring of 1896. 

 No. 108. The real value of " natural plant food." By L. L. 



Van Slyke. 

 No. 109. Strawberries. By Wendell Paddock. 

 No. 110. Milk-fat and cheese yield. By L. L. Van Slyke. 

 No. 111. Variety tests with blackberries, dewberries and rasp- 

 berries. By Wendell Paddock. 

 *No. 112. Economy in using fertilizers for raising potatoes. 



By L. L. Van Slyke. 

 *No. 113. The cucumber flea beetle as the cause of " pimply " 



potatoes. By F. C. Stewart. 

 Five of these bulletins (*) were isued under the authority of 

 the laws of 1895 and 1896, which provided for special work in the 



Second Judicial Department. 



W. H. Jordan, 



Director. 

 New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Geneva, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1896. 



