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INDEX. 



Corn borer — Concluded. 



In Massachusetts, food plants, 

 Importance, 

 Importation, 

 Present distribution. 

 Life history and habits. 

 Corn bran, digestion coefficients. 

 Cost of distributing milk in six cities and towns in Massachusetts, 

 Cows, pure-bred, testing for advanced registry, ..... 



Cranberries, observations on the spoilage of, due to lack of proper ventila- 

 tion, .......... 



Effect of carbon dioxide on cranberries, ..... 



Effect of carbon dioxide on fungi in the berries, .... 



Effect of different relative humidities on .spoilage due to carbon dioxide 



Relation of fungi to spoilage due to carbon dioxide. 



Temperature tests in open and closed cans, .... 



Cranberry, composition of, and its relations to storage and decay. 

 Cranberry substation, Wareham, accounts. 



Report for 1916 



Blueberry culture. 

 Bog management. 



Injury to bogs by fall army worm. 

 Injury to bogs from late holding of winter flowage. 

 Portable bridge for carting berries across bog ditches, 

 Sanding rim, value of. 

 Fertilizers, . . . 



Frost protection, . 



Temperature at which freezing of ripened berries begins. 

 Fungous diseases, ..... 



Control by use of copper sulfate in the flowage 

 "False blossom," ..... 



Spraying, effects of, . 



With arsenate of lead, . . 



With Black-Leaf 40 and resin fish-oil soap. 

 With Bordeaux mixture. 

 Insects, black-head fireworm, 

 Cranberry fruit worm. 

 Parasitism, 

 Submergence tests, 

 Cranberry rootworm, 

 Cranberry tip worm, . 

 Gyp.sy moth, 

 Resanding, . 

 Storage tests. 



Berries separated with Hayden and with White machines and berries 



screened without separating compared as to keeping quality, 

 Effect of admixtures of vines and leaves on keeping. 

 Effect of grading on the keeping of cranberries, 

 Hand-picking v. scoop-picking as affecting keeping quality. 

 Housing promptly v. leaving crates in the sun on the bog as affect 

 ing keeping, ........ 



Humidity records, ........ 



Incubator test of keeping quality of cranberries, . 



Injury to keeping quality caused by separators employing the 



bouncing principle and by the drop in the barrel. 

 Relative development of decay in different periods of the storage 

 season, 



P.\GE 



149 

 149 

 148 

 149 

 150 

 316 

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 48a 



235 

 237 

 239 

 238 

 238 

 236 

 40a 

 14a 

 183 

 183 

 232 

 232 

 232 

 233 

 233 

 222 

 184 

 186 

 186 

 192 

 192 

 186 

 191 

 190 

 187 

 226 

 227 

 228 

 230 

 223 

 226 

 224 

 218 

 193 



206 

 206 

 208 

 197 



200 

 194 

 216 



208 



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