100 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Returns of societies ; finances, analysis of premiums and gratuities, exhibi- 

 tions for 1890, agricultural directory. 

 Appendix : report of cattle commissioners, horses, swine. 

 Index. 



Seventh Report of Experiment Station, 333 pages. 



Cuts and maps ; report of Director Goessmann. 



Feeding experiments : with milch cows, summary, net cost of feed, feeding 

 or nutritive value of fodder articles, green crops v. English hay ; record 

 of twelve cows which served station for experiments to ascertain the 

 cost of feed for production of milk ; creamery record of station ; exper- 

 iments with pigs ; fodder analyses. 



Field experiments : to compare the influence of an addition of nitrogen in 

 different combinations ; influence of fertilizers on quantity and quality 

 of prominent fodder crops ; experiments with field and garden crops 

 (illustrated) ; with green crops for summer feed of milch cows ; notes 

 on miscellaneous field work. 



Report of department of vegetable physiology : general account of fungi, 

 slime moulds, bacteria, downy mildews and white rusts, water moulds, 

 leaf gall fungi, true moulds, insect fungi, smuts, rusts, jelly fungi, toad- 

 stools, puff-balls, yeasts, etc., imperfect fungi, the potato scab (illus- 

 trated), smut of barley and oats, spot disease of sugar beets, rot of 

 potatoes, fungus in cellar, black spot of rose leaves, nematode disease 

 of cucumbers, by Prof. J. E. Humphrey. 



Special work in chemical laboratory : commercial fertilizers, trade values, 

 laws, instructions to dealers, licensed dealers, analyses ; analyses of 

 water ; compilation of analyses made at Amherst of agricultural, chem- 

 ical and refuse materials used for fertilizing purposes and of fodder arti- 

 cles, fruits, sugar-producing plants, dairy products, etc., by W. II. Beal ; 

 meteorology, record of temperature, 1836-89 ; report of treasurer. 



Index. 



Thirty-eighth Report, 1890. 774 pages. 

 Report of Secretary, 450 pages. 



Contents : roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction : weather, crops of year, dairy industry, statistics of creameries, 

 insects, gypsy moth, trespassing, agricultural societies, appropriations, 

 legislation, farmers 1 institutes, abandoned farms, meetings of Board, 

 distribution of annual report, library, by Secretary Sessions. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Worcester : address of Mayor Harring- 

 ton ; opening address by J. Lewis Ellsworth ; lecture on what have 

 our experiment stations done for the farmers ? by Prof. G. II. Whitcher ; 

 lecture on birds of Massachusetts, water, land, woodpeckers, crows, 

 jays and blackbirds, sparrow family, bounty or scalp acts, by Dr. B. H. 

 Warren ; address of Governor J. Q. A. Brackett ; lecture on the dairy 

 temperament of cows (illustrated), by Governor W. D. Hoard; lecture 

 on some conditions for success in New England agriculture, by Dr. G. 

 M. Twitchell ; lecture on law, or nature's modes of action, by Prof. I. P. 

 Roberts ; lecture on the agriculture of the Nile valley, by John E. 



