New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 423 
Parsnips, 12, 574. 
fertilizers for, 14, 110. 
plant food constituents in, 24, 374. 
variety tests, 2, 180, 4, 139. 
Pasteurization at different temperatures, 
data, 18, 144, 146, 149. 
continuous, 18, 1338. 
discontinuous, 18, 132. 
effect on action of rennet in cheese 
ripening, 22, 207. 
Pasteurized milk, bacteriological tests, 
18, 141. 
Pasteurizer, description of, 18, 136. 
efficiency of, 18, 127. 
Pasturage of alfalfa, 16, 559. 
Pastures, fertilizers for, 14, 106. 
Patchin, Willard F., Clerk and Stenog- 
rapher, 25, VII. 
Patten, Andrew J., appointment, 19, 9; 
Assistant Chemist,19,V; bulletins by, 
23, 114, 25, 56; leave of absence, 21, 
10; resignation, 24, 8. 
Patterson, H. J., on ether extract, 10, 
128. 
Pea and oat forage, analysis of, 10, 40. 
canning, proper temperature for, 
22, 79. 
root system, 8, 306. 
weevil, 14, 376. 
treatment of, 1, 141, 2, 206. 
Peach, 10, 493. 
borers, 14, 359. 
buds, effect of hydrocyanic acid 
gas on, 20, 276. 
culture at Station, notes on, 9, 332. 
curculio, 14, 359. 
diseases in the Hudson Valley, 18, 
207; notes on, 3, 372; notes on 
crown gall, 18, 437; fruit rot, 
18, 488; gumming, 18, 438; leaf 
curl, 18, 439; little peach, 18, 
440; ripe rot, 18, 438; root knot, 
18, 437; yellows, 18, 440; prev- 
alence of, 19, 189. 
foliage, injury to, from paris green, 
ete., 14, 358. 
fruit rot of, 14, 358. 
gumming, notes on, 3, 875. 
insects, notes on borer, 18, 441; 
bud moth, 18, 442; curculio, 18, 
442; fruit bark beetle, 18, 442; 
San Jose scale, 18, 416, 449; 
remedies, 9, 345. 
leaf curl, effect of sulphur washes 
on, 24, 331. 
notes on, 3, 372, 6, 353, 14, 359. 
snout beetle, comments on, 22, 31. 
Peach-tree-borer, 14, 359, 15, 559; 
bibliography, 15, 567; character 
of injury, 15, 561; description 
and life history, 15, 561; dis- 
tribution, 15, 560; history, 15, 
Peach-tree-borer — Continued. 
559; notes on, 16, 460, 18, 441; 
on nursery stock, 16, 460; pre- 
ventive and remedial measures, 
15, 564. 
trees, analyses of, 10, 168-173; ef- 
fect of hydrocyanic acid gas on, 
20, 296; plant food constituents 
used by, 24, 359. 
yellows, 14, 359, 19, 191. 
law, 14, 368. 
Peaches, effect of fall spraying on, 23, 
213, 214. 
effect of lime-sulphur-salt wash 
on, 21, 289, 292, 300. 
fertilizers for, 14, 110. 
imperfect fertilization, 20, 17, 149. 
plant food constituents in, 24, 372. 
tarnished plant bug on, 19, 284. 
varieties tested, 3, 21, 7, 93, 98, 8, 
352, 357, 9, 347, 12, 612, 15, 
289. 
winter killed, 8, 340. 
winter injury to, 15, 422. 
Pear and apple mites, species found, 25, 
306. 
blight bacteria, figures, 5, 261, 262; 
bibliography, 5, 283; experiments 
with, 3, 3857; hyposulphite of 
soda for, 5, 174; notes on, 5, 
259, 14, 359; remedy for, 14, 
360; study of, 4, 268. 
(See also Pear leaf blight.) 
buds, effect of hydrocyanic acid gas 
on, 20, 274. 
diseases, 3, 357. 
{ in the Hudson Valley, 18, 209. 
notes on fire blight, 18, 443; 
general treatment, 18, 452; 
leaf blight, 18, 444; leaf 
spot, 18, 445; scab, 18, 445. 
prevalence, 19, 197. 
Pear fruit, injury from spraying, 
704. 
insects, notes on, bark lice, 18, 446; 
blister mite, 18, 446; borer, 18, 
12, 
447; bud moth, 18, 447; case 
bearers, 18, 447; cigar-case 
bearer, 18, 447; codling moth, 
18, 447; general treatment 
against, 18, 452; leaf blister 
mite, 18, 447; oyster-shell bark 
louse, 18, 448; pear midge, 1%, 
447; pear psylla, 18, 448; pistol- 
case bearer, 18, 447; San Jose 
scale, 18, 449; scurfy bark louse, 
18, 450; sinuate pear-borer, 18, 
451; slug, 18, 451; remedies for, 
9, 345. 
leaf blight, American pear stocks, 
11, 651; bordeaux mixture 
efficacious, 11, 647-651, 
