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Influence of food on butter. Babcock milk test for cream. Equipment 

 of horticultural department. Notes on cabbage, tomatoes and egg plants. 

 Spraying for codling moth and apple scab. Spraying apparatus. Fer- 

 tilizer experiments. Growing grains mixed and separately. Spring and 

 fall manuring. Meteorological observations. Jamestown weed. White 

 radish. Yellow dock. Chess. Mosses as stock food. Ticks. Sphinx 

 moths. Cut worms. Cotton wood dagger. Three toothed Aphonus. 

 Predaceous water beetle. Parallel elaphidion. Brown ptinus. Gold- 

 smith beetle. Remedies for borers. Breeding statistics. 



*REPORT FOR l8g2. 



Inspection of fertilizers. Miscellaneous analyses. Secondary effects 

 of Pollination. Notes on cabbages, tomatoes and egg plant. 

 Fruit tests. Spraying experiments. Fall dandelion. Orange hawk- 

 weed. Leaf blight of pear. Black or hair mold. Anthracnose of black- 

 berry and raspberry. Potato blight. Fail canker worm. Boll or corn 

 worm. Chinch bug. Horn fly. Two-spotted mite. Cut worms. Mete- 

 orological observations. Testing cream and milk fat test and lactometer. 



REPORT FOR 1 893. 



Investigation of the foraging powers of some agricultural plants for 

 phosphoric acid. The composition of fodders and silage from the corn 

 plant. Digestion experiments with sheep. Corn as a silage crop. Feed- 

 ing, experiments with cows and swine. Waste of fat in the skimmed 

 milk by the deep-setting process. Notes on cabbages, cauliflowers, toma- 

 toes, egg plants and potatoes. Spraying experiments. Catalogue of 

 Maine fruits. Bean and tomato anthracnose. Potato and beet scab. 

 The Angoumois grain moth; the lime-tree winter-moth; the apple-leaf 

 bucculatrix ; the Disippus butterfly; the May beetle; the bean weevil; 

 the pear-blight beetle or shot-borer ; the carrot-fly. 



REPORT FOR 1894. 



Analyses of butter and imitation butter. Field experiments with fer- 

 tilizers. The profitable amount of seed per acre for corn. Digestion 

 experiments. Feeding experiments. Notes on potatoes and corn. 

 Notes on small fruits and on plant breeding. The orange- 

 colored roestelia or quince rust. Diseases of oats. Night-flowering 

 catchfly. The dichotomous catchfly. Potato scab. The snow 

 flea. The silver fish. The ring-banded soldier-bug. The elm tree 

 bark louse. The gooseberry plant-louse. The oblique-banded carpet 

 beetle. The oak-bark weevil. The fall canker worm. Tuberculin as a 

 diagnostic agent. Bulletins issued in 1894 — Fruit-culture. Spraying 

 experiments. Tomatoes. Cauliflowers. Corn as a silage crop. Pota- 

 toes. Tuberculosis and glanders. A scheme for paying for cream, etc. 

 Foraging powers of some agricultural plants. 



