New York AGRICULTURAL EXPHpRIMENT STATION, 25 
Supply the smallest amount of fertilizer supported the maximum 
crop. 
Considering the varying market price of onions from one year 
to another and the various vicissitudes to which the crop is sub- 
jected, the use of the larger quantities of fertilizer (above 500 
Ibs.) was attended by danger of financial loss. 
Effect of manures on sugar beets—These experiments were 
undertaken to test the accuracy of the statement that sugar 
beets are of an inferior quality when grown on land to which 
stable manure is applied in the spring. 
The experiments have been conducted during four consecutive 
years, mostly on the Station farm. Comparisons have been made 
of the quality of beets not manured, those grown with commer- 
cial fertilizer, mostly 1000 lbs. per acre, and those grown on land 
receiving in the spring, before planting the beets, from 40,000 
lbs. to 80,000 Ibs. stable manure per acre. Beets from at least 
Six varieties of seed were grown during the four years. 
The results are almost unanimous in one direction. The beets 
have been of high quality with all three methods of treatment, 
averaging somewhat better with the farm manure than with no 
manure or with commercial fertilizers, 
BULLETINS PUBLISHED IN 1901. 
No. 197. October.—The food source of milk fat; with studies 
on the nutrition of milch cows. W.H. Jordan, C. 
G. Jenter and F. D. Fuller. Pages 382. 
No. 198. November.—Inspection of feeding stuffs, 1900-1901. 
W. 4H. Jordan and C. G. Jenter. Pages 29. 
No. 199. November.—An epidemic of currant anthracnose. F. 
C. Stewart and H. J. Eustace. Pages 18, plate 1. 
No. 200. November.—Notes from the Botanical Department: 
Trouble with pears in a nursery cellar; shot-hole 
fungus on cherry fruit pedicels; anthracnose of yel- 
low toad-flax; imperfect fertilization of peaches; 
tile drain clogged by fungus; a. fungus in refrigera- 
tors. F.C. Stewart and H.J Eustace. Pages 21, 
plates 4. 
