4 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



The followino; bulletins are still in stock and can be fur- 

 nislied on demand : — 



No. 27. Tuberculosis in college herd ; tubei-culin iu diagnosis ; 



bovine rabies ; poisoning by nitrate of soda. 

 No. 33. Glossary of fodder terms. 

 No. 35. Agricultural value of bone meal. 



No. 41. On the use of tuberculin (translated from Dr. Bang). 

 No. 43. Effects of electricity on germination of seeds. 

 No. 47. Field experiments with tobacco. 

 No. 54. Fertilizer analyses. 

 No. 55. Nematode worms. 

 No. 57. Fertilizer analyses. 

 No. 58. Manurial requirements of crops. 

 No. 59. Fertilizer analyses. 

 No. Gl. The asparagus rust in Massachusetts. 

 No. 63. Fertilizer analyses. 

 No. 64. Analyses of concentrated feed stuffs. 

 No. 66. Variety tests of fruits ; fertilizers for fruits ; thinning 



fruits, pruning ; spraying calendar. 

 No. 67. Grass thrips ; treatment for thrips in greenhouses. 

 No. 68. Fertilizer analyses. 

 No. 69. Rotting of greenhouse lettuce. 

 No. 70. Fertilizer analyses. 

 Special bulletin, — The brown-tail moth. 

 Special bulletin, — The coccid genera Chionaspis and Hemichion- 



aspis. 

 Index, 1888-95. 



Of the other bulletins, a few copies remain, which can be 

 su})i)licd only to complete sets for liljraries. 



Of the numerous prol)lems presented for solution, a few 

 only of the more important have been selected. From a 

 scries of experiments on the effect of food on the composition 

 of milk and butter fat and on the consistency or body of 

 butter, it was found : («) that diiferent amounts of protein 

 do not seem to have any influence on the composition of 

 milk ; (6) that, in general, feeds containing nnich oil have a 

 tendency to slightly increase the fat content of milk when 

 first fed, but after a few weeks the fat percentage gradually 

 returns to normal ; (c) that it is not practicable to feed large 

 amounts of oil to cow's, as it has a tendency to derange the 



