HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION 



OK THE 



MASSACHUSETTS 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



BULLETIN No. 17. 



Experiments with Fungicides and Insecticides. 



Testing New Varieties of Grapes and Peaches. 

 Protection of Peach Buds. 



Amount of Copper on Sprayed Fruit. 



The Siberian Crab as a Stock. 



Girdling Grape Vines. 



Keeping Qualities of Grapes. 



Report of Spraying Apparatus. 

 Outline of V^ork for 1892. 



APRIL, 1892. 



The Bulletins of this Station will be sent free to all newspapers in 

 the State and to such individuals interested in farnmig as may request 

 the same. 



AMHERST, MASS. : 



PRESS OF CARPENTER & MOREHOUSE. 



1892. 



