viii Contents. 



Report of the Horticultural Department — Continued. Page. 



Report on injury to fruit trees during the winter of 1895-C6 408 



Observations on cover crops for orchards 44° 



Report of the Department of Vegetable Pathology 447 



Preliminary statement 449 



Notes on miscellaneous plant diseases 45 ^ 



Combating carnation rust 4"i 



Potato diseases on Long Island in 1895 -■ 49^ 



The cucumber flea-beetle as the cause of " pimply " potatoes 513 



Report of the Department of Entomology 521 



Introduction S^j 



The Station collection of insects 524 



Some of the more important injurious insects of the year 525 



Experiments with green arsenite 53^ 



Experiments with dendrolene 54° 



Combating the cottonwood leaf-beetle 543 



The pistol-case-bearer 545 



Report of the inspection of nursery stock 558 



The peach tree borer 559 



The woolly louse of the apple 57° 



Notes on the recent army- worm outbreak 583 



Miscellaneous notes of the season 608 



The pear midge 614 



Notes on cabbage plusia and remedies for the same 620 



Notes on remedies for cutworms 628 



Report from the Department of Animal Husbandry 637 



General system of feeding the dairy herd 639 



Silage and silos 641 



Feeding trials with cross-bred swine 658 



Feeding experiments with laying hens 666 



Gifts to the Station 688 



Newspapers and periodicals presented to the Station 692 



Meteorological record for 1896 695 



