364 
“Audoynaud process’ for prevention of 
apple scab, 6, 101. 
Autopsy on tuberculosis cows, 25, 53. 
Available plant food, 14, 48. 
Availability of forms of plant food, 14, 
86, 87. 
Avena elatior. (See Oat grass.) 
flavescens. (See Yellow oat grass.) 
Ayrshire and Jersey milk compared in 
creaming, 10, 159. 
Ayrshire cows, butter record of, 9, 215, 
10, 320, 321, 331-339, 11, 470; 
cost of food, 10, 108; cost of 
milk produced, 10, 110; data in 
breed test, 8, 185; food consti- 
tuents, 10, 36, 44-47, 88, 11, 54, 
81-84, 12, 41, 70-72; food fed 
each month, 10, 82; milk con- 
stituents, 11, 61,,. 93, 94, 95,96, 
12, 44-47, 80, 81, 82; milk yield, 
10, 58-61; quantity and com- 
position of feed, 9, 412, 439. 
milk, analysis, 9, 182; average 
composition of solids in, 10, 142; 
average yield and composition of, 
10, 141; number and size of fat 
globules in, 10, 148, 151, 152; 
percentage of fat in large 
globules, 10, 154. 
Ayrshires, relative cost of milk and fat, 
10, 110. 
yield and composition of milk each 
month, 10, 58-61, 94. 
Azotin, nitrogen in, 14, 63, 64. 
Babbott feed, composition, 5, 340. 
Babcock milk test bottles, inspection, 
19, 14, 444, 20, 14, 21, 17. 
Babcock, Rufus A., potato spraying ex- 
periment, 24, 152. 
S. Moulton, appointment, 1, 8; 
Chemist, 1, 4; reports as Chem- 
ist? 25 14950 2.309 et4 29S ee5: 
297, 6, 372; resignation, 6, VII. 
Bacillus amylovorus, notes on, 18, 400, 
443, 456. (See also Twig blight 
of apple and Pear blight.) 
rudensis, cause of rusty spot in 
cheese, 21, 32. 
Bacteria, cause of bitter flavor in neuf- 
chatel cheese, 19, 39; cabbage 
black rot, 22, 89; losses in can- 
ning peas, 23, 16, 49; swelling in 
canned peas, 238, 55; rusty spot 
in cheese, 19, 45. 
causing swelling in canned peas, 
description, 28, 56. 
conversion of milk sugar into acid 
by, 22, 67. 
in udder and enzyms in milk, 20, 
183. 
INDEX TO First TWENTY-FIVE REPORTS. 
Bacteria, lactic acid, effect on other 
forms in milk, 22, 66; in cheese, 
22, 73; present in milk, 22, 65; 
role of, in cheese ripening, 22, 65. 
nature and action, 23, 51. 
of different kinds, 23, 52. 
of pear blight, figures, 5, 261, 262. 
Bacterial disease of beans, 11, 553; 
Lima beans, 11, 554. 
sweet corn, 16, 401; dissemi- 
nation, 16, 415; geographi- 
eal distribution, 16, 415; 
germ, 16, 405; germ, de- 
scription, 16, 408; inocula- 
tion experiment, 16, 406; 
pathological histology, 16, 
412; remedies, 16, 415; 
symptoms, 16, 402, 
rot of onions, 18, 169. 
wilt disease of cucumbers, 16, 426. 
Bacteriological tests of pasteurized milk, 
18, 141. 
Bacteriologist, dairy, appointment, 16, 
6, 17, 6: 
assistant, appointment, 22, 10; 
resignation, 22, 10. 
Bacteriology, Department of, reports, 
18, 126, 19, 27, 21, 25, 22, 63, 23, 
47, 24, 43, 25, 107; work of, 18, 21, 
19, 15, 20, 16, 21, 18, 22, 24, 23, 16, 
24, 18, 25, 16. 
Bagging grapes, 5, 168. 
Bailey, L. H., bulletin by, 19, 355. 
Baker, Ernest L., appointment, 24, 9; 
assistant chemist, 24, VII; bulletin 
by, 24, 325. 
Balance of nitrogen and fat in milch 
cow, 10, 509. 
Baldwin apples, core decay of, 22, 114. 
fruit-spot, study of, 18, 176. 
group of apples, 25, 348. 
Balm, plant food constituents in, 24, 
375. 
Bamboo extension, 12, 708, 16, 226. 
Bang method of controlling tuberculosis, 
25, 16; application in Station herd, 
25, 41; outline of, 25, 32; tests, 25, 
Pare 
Barley and pea forage, analysis of, 10, 
40. 
ash constituents in, 10, 174. 
classification of, 3, 385. 
compact vs. loose seed beds, 5, 131. 
composition, 15, 670, 16, 564. 
description of varieties, 3, 387. 
experiments with, 1, 34. 
fertilizers for, 14, 98. 
fertilizing materials contained in, 
14, 93. 
hybrid, notes on, 3, 81. 
influence of root pruning, 2, 142. 
key to varieties, 3, 387. 
