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No. 16. Electro-culture, and experiments with lettuce under the 



influence of dynamical electricity. 

 No. 17. Experiments with fungicides and insecticides. 



Testing new varieties of grapes and peaches. 



Protection of peach buds. 



Amount of copper on sprayed fruit. 



Siberian crab as a stock. 



Girdling grape vines. 



Report of spraying apparatus. 

 No. 18. Fertilizers for potatoes, oats and corn. 



Use of muriate of potash with manures for corn. 



" Special corn fertilizer " versus fertilizer rich in potash. 



Comparison of corn and millet as grain crops. 



Proximate composition of potatoes as affected by fer- 

 tilizers. 



Report on oats, hemp, flax, English wheats, Japanese 

 millets and beans. 

 No. ID. The gypsy moth. 



Barnard's insect trap. 



Effect of damp weather on Paris green in burning foliage. 



Kerosene emulsion as an insecticide for plant lice and 

 red spiders on rose bushes. 



Formula for preparation of kerosene emulsion. 



Amount of Paris green to be used in showering apple 

 trees. 



The cranberry insects. 



From the meteorological division, a monthly report, in an 

 edition of four hundred copies, has been issued, covering all 

 meteorological phenomena for each day. Expensive addi- 

 tions have been made to the apparatus, with a view to secur- 

 ing more complete results. 



In the agricultural division, the barn destroyed by fire in 

 1891 has been replaced by one more commodious in every 

 respect, and better adapted for purposes of experiment. 



The work of the different divisions during the year is 

 briefly outlined in the reports of the several officers herewith 

 submitted : — 



The Entomological Division. 



Two bulletins have been issued from this division during the 

 past year. The first. No. 19, contains the history and description 

 of the gypsy moth in all its stages, illustrated with six plates, one 



