Experiment Department. 



Four bulletins have been issued the past year, in editions 

 of 12,000, 12,500, 13,000, 15,000. The subjects treated 

 were the following : — 



No. 24. — Insecticides, particularly the arsenates of lead and 

 soda ; the horn-fly, with description and remedies against its 

 attacks. 



No. 25. — Formulae for the preparation of insecticides and fungi- 

 cides, with directions as to the time and manner of their use ; 

 report on one hundred and twenty-one varieties of grapes fruiting 

 in 1893. 



No. 26. — Report on small fruits tested during the season of 

 1894, namely, one hundred and twenty-four varieties of straw- 

 berries, twelve varieties of blackberries, eighteen varieties of red 

 raspberries, twenty varieties of black-cap raspberries. 



No. 27. — History of the college herd and record of the tests 

 made with tuberculin ; outbreak of bovine rabies ; poisoning from 

 nitrate of soda. 



Twelve monthly bulletins have been issued, in editions of 

 four hundred, in which the record of the meteorological ob- 

 .servations for each day has been noted. Owing to shrinkage 

 in the timbers and consequent settling of the floor, it has 

 been found impossible up to the present date to use the 

 electrograph. 



The above, however, indicates but a small part of the 

 work done at the station during the year. Great attention 

 has been paid to the gypsy moth and the various pests of 

 the cranberry, and the resources of the entomological divi- 

 sion have been taxed to the utmost in furnishing reply to 

 inquiries of how best to repel the invasions of the army, 

 canker and boll worms and other devastating foes. The 

 study of plant diseases has gone steadily on, and the mount- 

 ing and card cataloguing of some four thousand species of 

 fungi has been commenced. An interesting experiment, the 

 full details of which will be found in the report of the hor- 

 ticulturist, was conducted for the purpose of demonstrating 

 the ability to utilize by evaporation and bleaching the im- 

 mense quantities of fruit now allowed to go to waste. Six 

 model poultry houses have been constructed, and investiga- 



