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Experimeiit Station Report. 



CONTENTS 



Page. 

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



Experiment Station, to the Board of Control 5-11 



Communications from Prof. S. T. Maynard : 



Observations in regard to insects injurious to the apple, .... 12, 13 



Notes on insects injurious to farm and garden crops 14-16 



On the causes of certain diseases of grasses, 16,17 



Observations regarding the vitality of the seeds of various weeds, . . 17, 18 



Vitality of seeds as affected by age, 18-21 



Destruction of peach buds by cold, ' . 22 



On feeding experiments : 



Introduction to feeding experiments, 23-26 



Feeding experiments with corn ensilage 26-42 



Feeding experiments with gluten meal, 42-68 



Feeding experiments with pigs, 68-79 



Field experiments, 80, 81 



Experiments with fodder corn, 81-84 



Influence of fertilizers on the quantity and quality of fodder crops, . 84-87 



Experiments with potatoes, 87-89 



Experiments concerning the adaptation of some reputed forage crops, 



from other localities, to our climate and soil, 89-99 



Experiments with corn ensilage, 100-105 



Analyses of fodder and fodder crops, 106-112 



Experiments with special fertilizers in fruit culture : Currants and peaches, 113-119 



Miscellaneous analyses 120-124 



Valuation of fertilizers, and fertilizer analyses, 125-140 



On examination of di'inking water, 141-147 



Meteorology, 148-165 



