72 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Bulletin 133, pp. 29. — Commercial Feeding Stuffs in the Connecticut 

 Market. — An account of the inspection of feeding stuffs during 1900, 

 including tables showing the chemical composition, digestible nutrients, 

 and cost per ton of 186 samples of commercial feeding stuffs collected 

 in 25 towns and villages in the State. 



Annual Report, 1899, Part III, pp. 211, pi. 3, fig. 1. — This contains 

 a detailed account of experiments on (1) the availability to grass of 

 nitrogen in form of nitrate of soda, cotton-seed meal, and fine, hard 

 bone; (2) the availability to Hungarian grass of nitrogen in form of 

 nitrate of soda, cotton-seed meal, and raw, boiled, and steamed bone; 

 and (3) the availability of the nitrogen of hard, raw bone as affected 

 by applications of slaked lime; observations on the effect of nitrogen 

 in the form of nitrate of soda, cotton-seed meal, and ground bone upon 

 the growth of California privet; detailed results for 1899 of extensive 

 experiments in the use of commercial fertilizers and different soils in 

 growing tomatoes, lettuce, and carnations under glass; a brief account 

 of investigations of a stem-rot disease of carnations due to a species 

 of Fusarium; notes on the effect of winter upon chestnut grafts and 

 scions; brief notes on a number of injurious insects; a reprint in 

 revised form of Bulletin 129 of the station on the inspection and care 

 of nursery stock; results of experiments to study the effects of shad- 

 ing and liming tobacco on the prevalence of diseases and the yield and 

 quality of the crop; notes on the so-called "grain " of wrapper tobacco 

 considered due to deposits of oxalate of lime, and on the pole burn of 

 tobacco due to fungi; results * of a test of fertilizers applied in small 

 quantities from time to time throughout the growing season for the 

 prevention of the wilt disease of muskmelons; a discussion of the 

 nature and prevention of raspberry anthracnose, with the results of 

 some experimental work; notes on the downy mildew of melons, a 

 destructive disease of potatoes, injury to peas, leaf spot of alfalfa, and 

 a disease of peppers; a report of progress on experiments in fertiliz- 

 ing peaches with ashes and different amounts of muriate and sulphate 

 of potash and cotton-seed meal; an account of experiments in 1899 

 similar to earlier work in curing tobacco in a barn provided with hot- 

 air flues and in fermenting Connecticut tobacco in bulk; a determina- 

 tion of the area of leaf surface on the topped tobacco plant; results of 

 tests for vitality of 291 samples of seeds, chiefly of garden vegetables; 

 and chemical studies of the nucleic acid of the embryo of wheat and 

 its protein compounds, the proteids of the egg yolk, and the protein 

 constituents of egg white. Brief reports of the director and board 

 of control on station work during the year, and a financial statement 

 for the year ended September 30, 1899, accompany this part of the 

 annual report. 



Annual Report, 1900, Parts I, II, and III, pp. 395, pis. 16, figs. 12.— 

 Part I includes fertilizer statistics for 1900, the text and an abstract 



