1912.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 31. 31 



No. 27. Seeding- Mowings. 

 No. 28. Kules Kelative to Testing Dairy Cows. 

 No. 29. The Chemical Analysis of Soils. 



No. 32. An Act to regulate the Sale of Commercial Fertilizers. 

 Summer Soiling Crops. 

 Home-mixed Fertilizers. 



Dairymen losing Money on Low-Grade Feeds. 

 Balanced Rations for Business Cows. 

 Orchard Experiment. 



Fertilizei-s for Turnips, Cabbages and Other Crucifers. 

 Fei-tilizers for Corn. 



Annual reports: 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, IGth, 17th, 20th; 21st, 

 Part 11. ; 22d, Parts I. and 11. ; 23d, Parts I. and 11. 



Cirndation of ruhUcaiions. — As provided by act of our 

 Legislature, Part I. of our annual report is printed with the 

 report of the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, and 

 those on the mailing list of that Board will receive this publica- 

 tion. The act provides, also, that 5,000 copies of Part I. shall 

 be furnished to the station. These are used in supplying libra- 

 ries and directors of agricultural experiment stations, libraries 

 and presidents of agricultural colleges, the public libraries of 

 ]\Iassachusetts and other public libraries on our mailing list, 

 individuals on the mailing list of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, and institutions and periodicals on our exchange 

 list. 



The State prints an edition of 10,000 copies of Part 11. of 

 our annual report for the use of the station. This part of the 

 report and our bulletins are sent to all those on our general mail- 

 ing list, to the public libraries of the State, to individuals on 

 the mailing list of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 likely to be interested, and to experiment stations and the agri- 

 cultural colleges. 



It is our practice to reserve a considerable number of each 

 publication to meet subsequent demands, but such demands have 

 of late been so numerous that our supply of most of our earlier 

 editions is exhausted. 



Our meteorological bulletins are sent only to agricultural col- 

 lege and experiment station libraries, presidents and directors 

 of agricultural colleges and experiment stations, to the depart- 



