6 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



animal meal was of more value than cut bone ; (c) that the 

 influence of the cock was nil; (d) that a wide ration was 

 preferable to a narrow ration. 



The botanical division has issued an illustrated bulletin 

 (No. 55) on the nematode worm, in which its life history 

 is traced, and a simple remedy, steaming the soil, given for 

 its repression. Work has been done in the drop and top 

 burn of lettuce, asparagus and chrysanthemum rust, and in 

 sub-irrigation and the mechanical condition of soil as affect- 

 ing the growth of lettuce. 



Reports from the different divisions, giving in detail the 

 work of the year, accompany this brief summary. 



