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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

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Bulletin No. 8, February, 1890, 75 pp. Field Experiments with Corn. 1889. Summary of the Results of Field Experiments with Corn. Garden Experiments with Sweet Corn, 1889. Bulletin No. 9, May, 1890, 40 pp. Milk and Butter Tests. Comparative Talue of Corn-fodder and Ensilage in Feeding Yearling Heifers. Bulletin No. 10, August, 1890, 8 pp. Investigations of Milk Tests. Bulletin No. 11, August, 1890, 16 pp. Experiments with Wheat.

N E W WORK.

Upon recommendation of the Board of Direction of the Station, new work has been authorized as follows: September 11, 1888. 1. Investigation of the biology of ensilage. 2. An experiment in relation to the preservation of apples and other fruits. 3. An experiment with wheat sown on a thin soil, at some points in southern Illinois, and treated in the fall with fertilizers of different kinds, with the two-fold purpose to see whether the plant can be so strengthened as to withstand the attacks of the chinch bugs and to determine the effect of the fertilizers upon the yield. December 11, 1888. Stock-feeding Experiments: Pigs, age of, as affecting cost of meat production. Pigs, effect of weather and shelter upon their growth and condition. Pigs, value of wheat as a food for. Pigs, value for, of the undigested food they get from cattle when following them. Ensilage, value of, for horses, steers, and young cattle. Dairying Experiments: Ensilage, its value for milch cows in comparison with dry foods. Ensilage, its effect upon the quality of milk and butter. Milk, tests to ascertain its butter value. Milch cows, effects of warming water for. Tree-culture Experiments: Trees, testing time and methods of transplanting. Orchard fruits, production of new varieties. Orchard fruits, testing the effects of stock on cion and of cion on stock. Native fruits, testing and improving. Fruits, testing methods of preservation. Greenhouse Experiments: Coleuses, testing and identifying varieties. Geraniums, testing and identifying varieties March 12, 1889. 1. Oats, testing varieties. 2. Oats and wheat, a trial of the plan of growing them together. 3. Sugar beets and mangel-wurzels, cost of raising them and value of the •crop. 4. Corn, the effect of fertilizers upon. The purpose is to conduct this experiment upon a light soil, at some convenient point in southern Illinois. 5. Grasslands (meadow and pasture), tests of the use of fertilizers upon. 6. Pigs, cost of production, and rate of growth from birth. 7. Cross fertilization of plants, testing the effects of. S. Fruits, production of new varieties from seeds.