10 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



on the ircnoral charactor of certain field and garden crops, 

 as well as on certain characteristics of the roots of legu- 

 minous })lants, have added a new and interesting feature to 

 the work of the station. 



Prof. J. E. Pluinphrey has continued his observations 

 regarding certain diseases of garden crops and fruits. A 

 descri[)tion of his work concerning some diseases of the 

 cucuml)er, the 1)lack-kn()t of the plum, etc., accompanied 

 by interesting illustrations, form a part of this report, 

 Part II., 10. 



Dr. J. B. Lindsey, a graduate of the Massachusetts 

 Ai>;ricultural College, and former assistant in the Massachu- 

 setts State Experiment Station, -svho has lately closed a 

 three-years course of study at the University of Gottingen 

 and Zurich, and whose services have been secured l)y a vote 

 of the Board at the July meeting, has entered upon his 

 duties as associate chemist. The supervision and manage- 

 ment of the stock-feeding de})artment has been assigned to 

 him as his special duty. 



The work carried on at the station during the past _year, 

 1S!)2, has been reported in detail u})on the succeeding pages 

 in the following order : — 



Part I. 



Ox Feeding Experiments. 



I. Feeding experhiu'nts with milch cows (two). 



1. AVinter feeding e\})eriments witli milch cows: — 



Dent com vs. sweet corn. 



Corn meal w. maize feed (Chicago). 



2. Summer feeding experiments with milch cows : — 



Green feed : Kye, Canada peas and oats, summer vetch 



and oats, fodder corn and S(>rradella. 

 Grain f(!ed : Wheat bran, Buttalo gluten feed, cotton-seed 



meal. 



3. Creamery record of the station for 1801 and 1892. 



4. Analyses of milk of different breeds of cows by Babcock 



mode. 



5. Discussion on fodder articlt^s and fodder supplies: — 



Home-raised fodd(!r articrles 

 Conunereial i\-cd stufl's. 

 G. Analyses of fodder articles made at the station in 1892. 



