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height of folly for buyers to allow manufacturers to palm off upon 
them at grain prices inferior materials like oat-hulls and corn cobs 
that are no more valuable than the roughest, poorest farm prod- 
ucts such as straw, corn stalks and the like. 
FERTILIZERS. 
The Station continues to analyze samples of fertilizers collected 
in the State under the direction of the Commissioner of Agricul- 
ture. These number several hundred annually. This work involves_ 
the preparation of evidence to be submitted in those cases prose- 
cuted by the State Department for the violation of the fertilizer 
law. -The amount of work required by these analyses and the 
various duties related thereto, is very large. 
PUBLICATIONS ISSUED DURING 1907. 
BULLETINS. 
No. 285. January. Report of analyses of samples of fertilizers collected 
by the Commissioner of Agriculture during 1906. Pages 61. 
No. 286. February. The poplar and willow borer. W. J. Schoene. 
Pages 22, plates 6. Popular edition. Pages 8, plate I. | 
No. 287. March. Bordeaux injury. U. P. Hedrick. Pages 85, colored 
plate 1, plates 7. Popular edition. Pages 16. 
No. 288. April. Ringing herbaceous plants. U. P. Hedrick, O. M. 
Taylor, and Richard Wellington. Pages 17, plates 4. Popular edition. 
Pages 4. 
No. 289. April. The effect of wood ashes and acid phosphate on the 
yield and color of apples. U. P. Hedrick. Pages 25, diagram 1. Popular 
edition. Pages 8. 
No. 290. June. “Potato spraying experiments in 1906. F. C. Stewart, 
H. J. Eustace, G. T. French, and F. A. Sirrine. Pages 85, plates 2. Popu- 
lar edition. Pages 12. 
No. 201. August. Inspection of feeding stuffs. Pages 47. 
No. 202. August. Effect of treating milk with carbon dioxide gas under 
pressure. L. L. Van Slyke and Alfred W. Bosworth. Pages 14, plates 3. 
Popular edition. Pages 4. 
No. 293. October. Analyses of miscellaneous materials. L. L. Van Slyke. 
Pages IT. 
No. 294. December. Report of analyses of samples of’ fertilizers collected 
by the Commissioner of Agriculture during 1907. Pages 81. 
No. 295. December. Director’s report for 1907. W. H. Jordan. Pages 
a2 : 
TECHNICAL BULLETINS. 
No. 4. April. I. Some of the first chemical changes in cheddar cheese. 
I]. The activity of the water extract of cheddar cheese. L. L. Van Slyke and 
- Alfred W. Bosworth. Pages 22. 
