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Report of examining committee of Agricultural College. 



Report of Board to Legislature on tuberculosis. 



Essays : the inundated lands of Massachusetts, swamps of Massachusetts, 

 marine marshes of Massachusetts, by Prof. N. S. Shaler ; the past and 

 future of the Board of Agriculture, by J. W. Stockwell ; the laws of 

 competition as affecting the Massachusetts farmer, by Charles A. 

 Mills ; the employment of farm labor, by W. A. Kilbourn. 



Agricultural directory. 



Appendix : report of National Farmers' Congress at Sedalia, Mo., by Daniel 

 Needham ; report of cattle commissioners on glanders, hog cholera, 

 bovine tuberculosis, l'abies. 



Index. 



Ninth Report of Experiment Station, 352 pages. 



Cuts and maps ; report of Director Goessmann. 



Feeding experiments : with milch cows ; creamery record of station ; 

 method of milk analysis, methods of butter analysis ; remarks on anal- 

 ysis of fodder and fodder analyses ; methods of analysis of cattle foods ; 

 experiments with steers, results ; experiments with lambs, conclusions ; 

 three feeding exjaeriments with thoroughbred pigs, conclusions. 



Field experiments : to ascertain effect of different combinations of nitrogen 

 on rye ; experiment with grasses ; experiments with field and garden 

 crops ; with Stowell's evergreen sweet corn for ensilage ; to study 

 economy of using different commercial sources of phosphoric acid for 

 mammal purposes in farm practice ; experiments with a western va- 

 riety of dent corn for ensilage ; experiments with grass land ; report 

 on general farm work. 



Report of department of vegetable physiology : rotting of lettuce, powdery 

 mildew of cucumber, a new potato disease, another disease of cucum- 

 bers, rye fungi, club root of cabbages, blight of celery, clover fungi, a 

 fish hatchery fungus, rust of poplars, anthracnose of chestnut, black 

 knot of plum, diseases of tobacco, preparation and application of fungi- 

 cides, plate, by Prof. J. E. Humphrey. 



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

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

 of water ; compilation of analyses 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 

 R. B. Moore ; meteorology ; report of treasurer ; summary of station 

 property. 



Index. 



Fortieth Report, 1892. 842 pages. 

 Report of Secretary, 488 pages. 



Contents : roster Board of Agriculture. 



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

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

 abandoned farms, returns of societies, farmers 1 institutes, agricultural 

 directory, meetings of Board, changes in Board, by Secretary Sessions. 



Meetings of executive committee, circuit of institutes. 



