492 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



CONTEIS^TS. 



Second Annual Report of the Director of the Mass. State Agricultural 



Experiment Station, to the Board of Control, 331-337 



Communications from Prof. S. T. Maynard : 



Observations in regard to insects injurious to the apple, .... 338, 339 



Notes on insects injurious to farm and garden crops 340-342 



On the causes of certain diseases of grasses, 342, 343 



Observations regarding the vitality of the seeds of various weeds, . . 343, 344 



Vitality of seeds as affected by age, 344-347 



Destruction of peach buds by cold, 348 



On feeding experiments : 



Introduction to feeding experiments, 349-352 



Feeding experiments with corn ensilage, 352-368 



Feeding experiments with gluten meal, 368-394 



Feeding experiments with pigs, 394-405 



Field experiments, 406, 407 



Experiments with fodder corn, 407-410 



Influence of fertilizers on the quantity and quality of fodder crops, . 410--tl3 



Experiments with potatoes, 413-415 



Experiments concerning the adaptation of some reputed forage crop-;, 



from other localities, to our climate and soil, 4I5-^2o 



Experiments with corn ensilage, 426-431 



Analyses of fodder and fodder crops, 432-438 



Experiments with special fertilizers in fruit culture : Currants and peaches, 439-445 



Miscellaneous analyses 446^50 



Valuation of fertilizers, and fertilizer analyses, 451-466 



On examination of drinking water, 467-473 



Meteorology 474-491 



