AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. IX 



prevention of the cabbage worm. 



Time : Summer of 1890. 



(63) Germination Tests. 



Object : To determine the effect upon their vitality of keeping 

 seeds. 



Time : 1890 and continuing. 



{64) Spraying Experiment. 

 Object : To determine the minimum amount of Paris Green 

 necessary in preventing the potato beetle. 

 Time : 1890. 



{65) Investigation. 



Object : To determine the life history of the apple maggot 

 and the best means of preventing its ravages. 



Time: 1888, and continuing. 



Results published : Bulletin No. 2, second series, and this 

 Report pp. 190-241. 



{66) Experiment. 



Object : To determine the economy of caponizing cockerels. 



{67) Investigation. 

 Object : The study of hog cholera and swine plague. 



{68) Experiment. 

 Object : To determine the conditions favorable to the commu- 

 nication of tuberculosis from one animal to another. 



Time : 1890. 



(69) Investigation. 



Object : A study of the disease known as actinimycosis (lump 

 on the jaw.) 



{70) Investigation. 



Object : A study of parturition fever. 



{71) Experiment. 

 Object : Test of the economy of egg and meat production with 

 certain breeds of poultry. 



Time : 1890, and continuing. 



{72) Culture Experiment. 



Object : To test the value of new varieties of large and small 

 fruits in various parts of this State. 

 Time : 1890, and continuing. 



