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with grasses and leguminous plants ; experiments with field and garden 

 crops (illustrated) ; experiments with phosphoric acid for manurial 

 purposes in farm practice ; experiments with grass land ; report on 

 general farm work. 



Report of department of vegetable physiology : black knot of plum, cucumber 

 mildew, brown rot of stone fruits, potato scab, damping-off, mildew of 

 spinach, grapevine mildew, potato rot, elder rust, rust of blackberries 

 and raspberries, the hollyhock rust, disease of oats, notes on fungicides, 

 plates, by Prof. J. E. Humphrey. 



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

 laws, list of dealers, anatyses, methods of fertilizer analysis ; analyses 

 of water; compilation of anal}*ses made at Amherst of agricultural 

 chemicals and refuse materials used for fertilizing purposes and of 

 fodder articles, fruits, sugar-producing plants, dairy products, etc., by 

 W. H. Beal ; meteorology ; report of treasurer ; station property. 



Index. 



Thirty-ninth Report, 1891. 841 pages. 

 Report of Secretary, 489 pages. 



Contents : roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction : weather, crops of year, crop reports, publications, legislation, 

 appropriations, nails for marking trees, dairy bureau, gypsy moth, 

 abandoned farms, tuberculosis, returns of societies, farmers' institutes, 

 meetings of Board, agricultural directory, by Secretary Sessions. 



Special meetings of Board at Boston ; meetings of executive committee. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Boston : address of H. S. Carruth ; 

 address of Governor William E. Russell ; lecture on the philosophy 

 of the crossing of plants, considered in reference to their improvement 

 under cultivation, by Prof. L. H. Bailey ; lecture on the agricultural 

 situation, by W. D. Hoard ; remarks on the gypsy moth, by Secretary 

 Sessions and Director Forbush ; lecture on history of sheep husbandry 

 in Massachusetts, clothing, breeds, decrease in number of sheep, im- 

 portation from the West, dairy industry, fences, tariff, dogs and sheep, 

 sheep as food, by James S. Grinnell ; lecture on fruit growing : its 

 demands and its enemies, by Dr. Jabez Fisher ; address on work of 

 weather bureau, by J. Warren Smith ; lecture on breeding and feeding 

 of swine, food of sire, dam, farrowing time, by Theodore Louis ; lecture 

 on road making and maintenance : the latter wrought into the texture 

 and structure of the road, appendix (illustrated) , by J. B. Olcott. 



Report of Board on work of extermination of gypsy moth (illustrated) : 

 report of secretary, financial statement, rules and regulations ; report 

 of director of field work, organization, cutting and burning, banding 

 trees, experimental work, spraying, police, burlapping, contact insecti- 

 cides, condition of infested territory, summary of season's work, exter- 

 mination ; report of entomologist. 



Report of dairy bureau, financial statement. 



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

 membership, institutes, summary. 



Annual meeting of Board : resolutions on death of E. F. Bowditch, exhi- 

 bitions for 1892. 



