Excerpt from Spraying Fruits for Insect, Pests, and Fungous Diseases: With a Special Consideration of the Subject in Its Relation to the Public Health Farmers' Bulletin No. 1. The What and Why of Agricultural Experiment Sta tions. (a brief explanation of the object, origin, and development of the stations, their work in Europe and in the United States, and the operations of the Office of Experiment Stations of the Department of Agriculture.) Prepared by the Office of Experiment Stations; pp. 16. Issued June, 1889. Farmers' Bulletin No. 2. The Work of the Agricultural Experiment Stations; (illustrations of Station Work in the following lines: better cows for the dairy; fibrin in milk; bacteria in milk, cream, and butter; silos and silage; alfalfa; and field experiments with fertilizers.) Prepared by the Office of Experiment Stations; pp. 16. Issued June, 1889. Farmers' Bulletin No. 3. The Culture of the Sugar Beet. (treats of the climatic conditions, soil, fertilizers, and cultivation required by the sugar beet, cost of grow ing, time to harvest, and method of soiling; describes briefly the process of beet sugar manufacture, and gives statistics of sugar production and consumption.) By B. W. Wiley, chemist of the Department of Agriculture; pp. 24. Issued March, 1891. Farmers' Bulletin No. 4. Fungous Diseases of the Grape and their Treatment. (describes downy mildew, powdery mildew, black rot, and anthracnose of grapes and gives instructions for their treatment and estimated cost of remedies.) Bv 3. Galloway, Chief of the Division of Vegetable Pathology; pp. 12. Issued M. Z. In? 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.