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stuffs. Digestion experiments. Feeding experiments for milk and 

 butter and for growth. Inquiries concerning cattle foods. Tests and 

 varieties, grain and potatoes. Experiments in raising cream. Adulter- 

 ation of molasses. Insecticides. Analytical and experimental methods. 



REPORT FOR 1 888. 



Inspection of fertilizers. Digestion experiments with sheep. The 

 compounding of rations for farm animals. The composition and digesti- 

 bility of American feeding stuffs. Tests of varieties of potatoes, oats, 

 barley, and peas. Germination tests of seeds. Description of the fol- 

 lowing injurious insects: Round-headed apple-tree borer; Flat-headed 

 apple-tree borer ; Oyster-shell bark louse ; Apple-tree tent-caterpillar ; 

 Forest tent-caterpillar ; Fall canker-worm ; Eye-spotted bud-moth ; Apple- 

 tree aphis; Codling moth; Apple maggot; Ash-gray pinion; Pear-tree 

 slug ; Indian cetonia ; Plum curculio ; Cherry-tree plant louse ; Imported 

 currant-worm; Ivy scale insect; Black swallow-tail butterfly; Eyed elater; 

 Hawthorn tingis ; Mourning cloak butterfly ; Meal-worm beetle. 



REPORT FOR 1 889. 



Inspection of fertilizers. Composition, digestibility and yield of corn- 

 fodder and hay from various grasses. Composition and value of various 

 commercial feeding stuffs. The comparative digestibility of wheat bran 

 and wheat middlings. Composition and digestibility of pea meal. The 

 value of the digestible matter of good hay as compared with the digestible 

 matter of corn ensilage, for milk production. The, value of the digestible 

 matter of ensilage as compared with the digestible matter of hay, for 

 growth. Feeding experiments with swine. Tests of several breeds of 

 dairy cows. Field and pot experiments with fertilizers. Field tests 

 with varieties of barley, oats and peas. Seed germination experiments. 

 Experiments with forage plants. The potato rot. Apple scab. The 

 apple maggot. Insecticides. Hog cholera. Parturient apoplexy, (milk 

 fever). The coefficients of digestibility for protein. Loss of food and 

 manurial value in selling sweet corn. 



REPORT FOR l8gO. 



Inspection of fertilizers. Tests of dairy cows. Mechanical loss of 

 butter fat. Effect of delay in setting milk. The mineral ingredients of 

 milk. The fat globules of milk. Tuberculosis in the college herd. Feed- 

 ing experiments with colts, steers, and swine. Field experiments with 

 fertilizers. Germination tests of seeds. Spraying experiments. Injurious- 

 insects. Meteorological observations. 



^REPORT FOR I 89 I. 



Inspection of fertilizers. Station equipment. Digestion experiments. 

 Production of food material by various fodder and root crops. Turnips- 

 for sheep. Producing growth in lambs. Feeding experiment with colts. 



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