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cost. A similar experiment with millet occupied another half 

 acre, and this also showed the superiority of the cheaper com- 

 bination of fertilizers. 



The two experiments with fertilizers just alluded to were 

 designed to serve also as a basis for comparison of millet and 

 corn as grain crops. The millet yielded at the rate of about 

 seventy-five bushels of seed and two tons of straw per acre ; 

 the corn fifty-six bushels of grain and a little over two tons of 

 stover. The cost of labor Avas the greater for the millet ; but 

 until the crops are analyzed it is impossible to make an exact 

 comparison. The millet has been ground, and makes an excel- 

 lent meal. 



The grand average of the milk analyses of the two samples 

 (morning and night) of the milk of all the cows in our herd 

 made in December, 1890, was 13.17 per cent, total solids and 

 4.11 per cent, fat, thus being a little above the legal standard 

 in this State. The milk of the Ayrshires (six cows) averaged 

 13.29 per cent, solids and 3.78 per cent, fat; Holstein- 

 Friesians (five cows), 12.10 per cent, solids, 3.26 per cent, 

 fat; Shorthorns (four cows), 13.19 per cent, solids, 4.04 per 

 cent, fat; Jerseys (three cows), 13.91 per cent, solids, 4.96 

 per cent, fat ; Guernsey (one cow), 16.36 per cent, solids, 6.79 

 per eent. fat; grades (twenty-one cows), 13.23 per cent, 

 solids, 4.18 per cent. fat. 



Horticultural Division. 



The work of this division has been carried on according to 

 the plans made at the beginning of the year, the results of 

 which have been published in full, or in part, in the quarterly 

 bulletins. 



In Bulletin No. 11 are given the results of the use of fungi- 

 cides and insecticides combined, for the destruction of insects 

 and fungous growths attacking the same kinds of crops. In 

 Bulletin No. 13 is given full instruction for the use of fungi- 

 cides, and also fungicides and insecticides, when they can be 

 successfully and economically combined, based upon the work 

 of this station and the facts estaVjlished by workers in the same 

 line connected with other stations. 



During the past season duplicate experiments have been con- 

 ducted by responsible parties in different parts of the State, and, 



