Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y., 1889 All the actual analytical work mentioned below was done by Mr. W. P. Cutter, the assistant chemist, or under his immediate supervision. The number of analyses to be made was so large that additional help was necessary in the laboratory of the Station during a small portion of the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.