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Title: Report on the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations for the year ended …
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: United States.: Office of Experiment Stations
Subjects: Agricultural experiment stations--United States Agriculture--United States.
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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, with Special Referenceto Cheese Production.—This is a popular bulletin on the yield, physicalconstitution, and composition of milk, the fat globules and other con-stituents, conditions affecting the composition, relative value of milk,relation of milk constituents to cheese, and the calculation of the yieldof cheese. Mention is made of finding soluble ferments in milk as nor-mal constituents. Bulletin 62,pp. 27, figs. 10.—Tainted or Defective Milks: Their Causesand Methods of Prevention.—A popular discussion of the establishedfacts relating to the cause, nature, and prevention of taints. Bulletin 63, pp. 67, figs. 23.— The Culture of Native Plums in the North-ivest.—The propagation, culture, insect enemies, and diseases of nativeplums are considered, and notes are given on 180 native varieties. Cul-tural methods of successful plum growers in the Northwest, as reportedby themselves, are summarized in tables. U. 5 Dept. of Agn., Bui. 61, Office of Expt. Stations. PLATE XIII.
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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 101 Bulletin 64,pp. 104, Jigs. 5.—Sugar-Beet Investigations in Wisconsinduring 1897,—Report of cooperative culture experiments made byformers in the counties adapted to agriculture, culture tests at oue ormore of the substations in a number of the counties to determine thecost of production, variety tests, and a fertilizer experiment with sugarbeets on marsh soil at the station form. The relative value of beets ofdifferent degrees of purity, the importance of proper culture, and theinfluence of soil are also discussed. /inIhtin t,~>, pp. .7.9, Jigs. 1>. — Jiaeterial /\ot <J Cabbage and AlliedPlants.— Detailed results of a study of this disease, including a descrip-tion of the organism producing it. data on the morphology and culturecharacteristics of the disease, results of artificial infection experimentsWith different host plants, notes on the appearance of diseased plants,infection of plants through water pores and by artificial in

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