392 
Experiment stations, demands of, 10, 
24, 27; functions and management of, 
6, 44; general character of investiga- 
tions, °15;°17 5" of * Hurope, 11> -so* 
permanence of, 15, 16; salary and 
labor, expenses of, compared, 11, 38; 
value to farmers, 10, 23. 
Experiments, benefit from, in Second 
Judicial Department, 16, 12. 
carried on outside Station premises, 
2 sas A 
co-operative, 19, 13, 23, 14. 
demonstration, 28, 13, 24, 15, 25, 
12. 
fertilizer, on lettuce, 20, 22. 
fumigation, notes, 20, 20. 
in making cheese, 11, 23; from nor- 
mal erichy milk.» U2) 285eescider 
vinegar, 23, 19; Edam _ cheese, 
12, 244; gouda cheese, 12, 264. 
in poultry feeding, note on, 23, 16. 
in preventing cherry leaf blight, 12, 
688; leaf diseases of nursery 
stock, 11, 642; pear scab, 12, 
694; plum leaf blight, 12, 688. 
in shading strawberries, 23, 23. 
in spraying celery, 11, 581. 
in treating potato scab, 11, 561. 
spraying, on cucumbers, 17, 34. 
with crude petroleum, 20, 19. 
with animal food for ducklings, 238, 
81; Bermuda lily disease, 14, 
523; ensilage, 21, 163: fertili- 
zers, directions for, 16, 602; 
green arsenite, 17, 8342; nursery 
stock, 11, 642; sugar beets, 16, 
588, 17, 29; sulphur-lime treat- 
ment for onion smut, 19, 75, 76. 
Extension rods, description, 22, 358. 
Extraction of fats with sulphuric and 
petroleum ethers, comparison, 16, 
500. 
of water soluble products in cheese, 
21, 198. 
Factories, cheese, fat in milk as a basis 
for paying for milk at, 10, 289. 
Failure in potato spraying, causes, 22, 
Le 
Fairchild, D.G., report, 10,: 179, 21, 
642; work for Station, 10, 179. 
F. O., letter relative to grape 
diseases, 9, 318. 
Fairs, exhibit at, 10, 458. 
Fall cultivating for repression of rasp- 
berry saw-fly, 17, 356. 
spraying, 23, 20; results, 23, 212; 
with sulphur washes, 24, 327. 
use of sulphur washes, 23, 206. 
web-worm, notes on, 17, 3881. 
Fameuse group of apples, 25, 344, 
INDEX TO First TWENTY-FIVE REPORTS. 
Farm and crop statistics, 10, 20. 
animals, flesh of, fertilizing valu 
10, 423. 
manurial value, 14, 148. 
crops, notes on, 10, 491; of New 
York, yield, 9, 105; yield and 
value, 8, 81; yield by states, 10, 
18. 
fertilizing materials produced on, 
14, 74. 
laborers, wages, 8, 33. 
manures, care and preservation of, 
14, 80; economic value of, 14, 
74; fertilizing constituents in, 
10, 420; fertilizing value of, 10, 
420; use of, 14, 122; variation 
in composition of, 14, 74. 
products, conyparative value, 7, 
321; fertilizer constituents, 6, 
455, 7, 320, 10, 420; fertilizing 
value of, 10, 420; prices, 8, 34. 
‘Station, analysis of soil, 8, 53. 
Superintendent, reports, 7, 316, 8, 
OTH, Ls anes 
Farmer, report of, 4, 354. 
Farmers’ business experiments in spray- 
ing potatoes, 24, 105, 25, 130, 
161. 
Institute bulletin, 11, 9; work, 19, 
12s 
Farmers, rations fed by, 8, 110. 
relation to Experiment Station, 15, 
33. 
Farmingdale, potato 
ment at, 24, 132. 
Farmyard manures, definition of, 14, 74. 
Fat, amount lost and recovered in using 
commercial and home-made 
rennet extract, 10, 277. 
lost by cheddar and_ stirred- 
curd processes, 10, 273, 11, 
448. 
and milk production, cost of, 11, 
149; relative cost of pro- 
duction, 125° 132-7136; orele- 
tive cost of, from different 
breeds, 10, 110. — 
nitrogen, balance sheet for 
milch cow, 16, 509, 
average percentage in different sized 
globules, 10, 155. 
pounds of, in milk by breeds, 
spraying experi- 
ae Le al 
balance in milch cow, 16, 515, 516, 
20, 43. 
body, formation, 16, 492. 
casein and albumen, influence of, 
on composition of cheese, 10, 
264, 11,. 420. 
cost of production of, 12, 128. 
crude, defined, 10, 125. 
