Historic, arcliived document
Do not assume content reflects current scientific knowledge, policies, or practices.
[Bulletins 164 to 175 constitute the Report for 1909. In binding, pages i-xii at the end of this bulletin should be detached and placed before Bul- letin 164, which begins with page i]
Maine Agriciiltiiral Immi Station
BULLETIN No. 175.
DECEMBER, 1909.
FINANCES, METEOROLOGY, INDEX.
CONTEXTS. PAGE
^Meteorological Observations 329
Report of Treasurer .' 332
334
CoHeded set.
MAINE
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION ORONO, MAINE.
THE STATION COUNCIL
PRESIDENT GEORGE E. FELLOWS DIRECTOR CHARLES D. WOODS JOHN A. ROBERTS, Norway . CHARLES L. JONES, Corinna SAMUEL W. GOULD, Skowhegan . AUGUSTUS W. OILMAN, Foxcroft EUGENE H. LIBBY, Auburn CHARLES S. POPE, Manchester RUTILLUS ALDEN, Winthrop
President Secretary
I Committee of j Board of Trustees
Commissioner of Agriculture State Grange State Pomological Society State Dairymen's Association
A.ND THE HEADS AND ASSOCIATES OF STATION DEPARTMENTS
THE STATION STAFF.
f CHARLES D. WOODS, Sc. D . . Director I HARRY M. WOODS, A. B. Asst. to the Director
ADMINISTRATION ■<
BLANCHE F. POOLER
BIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY
ENTOMOLOGY
RALPH K. JONES, B. S. CHARLES J. DUNN GRACE M. COLBURN . RAYMOND PEARL, Ph. D FRANK M. SURFACE, Ph. D. ^ MAYNIE R. CURTIS, A. M WALTER ANDERSON. . LOTTIE E. McPHETERS. 'JAMES M. BARTLETT, M. S. -{ HERMAN H. HANSON, M. S. JOSEPH F. MERRILL, B. S. ALBERT G. DURGIN. M. S. EDITH M. PATCH, B. S. ■< OSKAR A. JOHANNSEN, Ph. D [ALICE W. AVERILL WALTER W. BONNS, B.
Stenographer Librarian Treasurer Bookkeeper Biologist A ssociate Assistant Poultryman Computer Chemist A ssociate Assistant Assistant Entomologist
Associate Laboratory Assistant
HORTICULTURE WALTER W. BONNS, B. S. Associate PLANT r WARNER J. MORSE, M. S . Pathologist
P^THCLOGy -! CHARLES E. LEWIS, Ph. D. . Associate 'jOHN SUMMERS Laboratory Assistant
HIGH MOOR FARM WELLINGTON SINCLAIR . Superintendent ROYDEN L. HAMMOND . . Seed Analyst and Photographer
HENRY A. MILLETT . . . Meteorological Observer and Janitor
D.
FEB
Of D.
£3 13i3
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
Lat. 44° 54' 2" X. Lon. 68° 40' 11" W. Elevation 150 feet.
The instruments used at this Station are the same as those used in preceding years, and include : ^^'et and dry bulb ther- mometers ; maximum and minimum thermometers ; rain-guage ; self-recording anemometer, vane, and barometer. The observa- tions at Orono now form an almost unbroken record of forty- one vears.
330
MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I909.
OC CO
•J9qni803(j
S
05 "S
Oi S
O B
•.qnp
00 M 10
O CC (M
O ' C^i CO ^
>< a
< w
=• S
O TJ
o s
a!
O e
bJ .2
^ -s
■.<ivi<i
■liidy
■.fjcnjqaj
(M ^
M CO LO
(M •<3<
<N CO ^
;i — ■
i-< CM w — 4
^ O c^
.A
o
CM ^ ^
CO CM T-H
>> -r
_5 #
C g o
0 S
^ h-f ^
c. a ^
& S c a
Z Z Z H
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
■I'nox
Si 513
•jaqtnaAOf;
■jaqraajdag
•jsnSny
•9nnf
■|uclv
■A"JT!njqaj
REPORT OF TREASURER FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1909.
NATIONAL FUNDS.
Receipts.
Hatch Fund.
Adam.s Fund,
Geu'l Acct.
Balance July 1, 1908. . , . . . Treasurer of United States.
Sale^, etc . . . .
Total
Disbursements. Salaries
Labor
Publications
Postage and stationery . .........
Freight and express
Heat, light and power
Chemical supplies
Seeds, plants and sundry supplies.
Fertilizers
Feeding stuffs
Library
Tools, implements and machinery.
Furniture and fixtures
Scientific apparatus
Live stock
Traveling expenses
Contingent expenses
Buildings
Balance June .30, 1909
Total
15,000 00
.$11 ,000 00
815,000 00
.S8,647 9; 244 74 10 .35 367 58 247 99 481 89 77 32 340 68
1 ,002 04 523 03 594 11 74 07 134 75 531 45 712 05 259 98 750 00
■Sll ,000 00
$15,000 00
$1 ,830 41
2,902 00
:,732 41
■ ,6.59 13: SI ,404 50
|
24 60 |
112 |
23 |
|
1 |
00 |
|
|
7 70 |
60 |
01 |
|
10 87 |
57 |
|
|
306 |
65 |
|
|
28 26 |
45 |
|
|
955 74 |
152 |
S3 |
|
S 25 |
321 |
79 |
|
693 |
09 |
|
|
441 77 |
||
|
1 49 |
14 |
11 |
|
10 |
37 |
|
|
889 02 |
62 |
96 |
|
6 9C |
.5 |
25 |
|
436 41 |
78 |
06 |
|
529 86 |
313 |
51 |
|
1 ,137 |
83 |
|
|
$11 ,000 00 |
S4 ,732 |
41 |
REPORT OF TREASURER.
333
REPORT OF TREASURER FOR STATE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1909.
STATE FUNDS.
Receipts.
Printing.
Inspections.
State appropriation . Analyses, fees, etc Total . .
DiSBVRSEMENTS.
Salaries
Traveling expenses ...
Freight and express
Office supplies
Light ami heat
Laboratory supplies
Printing bulletins and reports
Balance Dec. .31. 1909
Total
S4,500 00
$4 ,500 00
2 ,932 44 1 ,567 56
«4,o00 OC
$9 .000 00 1 .457 36
$10 .4,57 36
S7,672 17 1 .290 15 57 31 607 52 132 .33 560 39
137 49
!B10 .4.57 36
INDEX.
PAGE
Adelges abieticolens 279
coccineus 279
strobilobius 279
Alfalfa 98
Alternaria solani 2
Apemon 241
gracilis 243
maudse 244
nigriventris 245
pectoralis 243
pulchra 244
Apple diseases 185
cultural studies 192
inoculation experiments 186
literature cited 199
rots ~ 3
scab 4
trees, affected by weather 12
crotch injury 17
Announcements vi
Ascospora beyerinckii 195
Asindulum 234
coxale 234
flavum 235
montanum 234
Bacillus amylovorus 18
phytophthorus 31 1
solanicola 311
solanisaprus 311
Bibliography, fertility and hatching of eggs I57
Bitter rot of apple, treatment 10
Blackleg of potato 310
character and appearance 312
economic aspects 319
geographical distribution 318
means of distribution 31S
means of prevention 323
spread by decayed seed tubers 317
INDEX. 335
PAGE
Blight and rot of tlic potato i, 165
resistant potatoes 92
Bolitophila 218
cinerea 219
disjuncta 218
fusca 219
hybrida 219
montana 220
Bolitophilinae 217
Bordeaux mixture 174
for apple scab 9
Brooder house, nioditications 34
Buildings for poultry 32
Ceroplatinje 233
Ceroplatus 235
carbonarius 236
clausus 237
militaris 237
terminalis 236
Cerotelion 238
apicalis 239
bellulus 239
longimanus 240
Chermes abieticolens 277
bibliography 289
migrations 282
abietis 203, 279, 290
bibliography 293
consolidatus 297
floccus 283, 299
green-winged 203
host plants 296,301,306
in Europe 306
lariciatus 294
laricifoliae 296
methods of study 304
new species 306
of Maine conifers 277
key to 306
remedial measures 287, 293
pine leaf 201, 277
pinicorticis 278, 303
pinifolise 201,277,281
bibliography 288
similis 301
strobilobius 297
wing vein nomenclature 305
Coniothyrium pirina 186
336
INDEX.
PAGE
Coryneum bej-erinckii igi
foliicolum i86
Cresol soap 37
Crotch injury of apple trees 17
Cylindrosporum pomi 189
Diadocidia 231
borealis 233
ferruginosa 232
flavicans 232
terricola 232
Diadocidiinse 231
Diseases of plants in 1908 i
Disinfectant, liquor cresolis compositus 36
Ditomyia 227
euzona 227
Dry rot of the potato 2
Egg fertility and hatching, relation between 112
term defined ill
Egg producing ability, inheritance of 49
production, correlation between mother and daughters.... 61
details of experiments 50
distribution with unregistered pullets 74
measurement 46
of daughters of 200-egg hens 49
of registered and unregistered pullets 73
physiology- of 29
seasonal distribution 41
record sheets 39
records of mothers and daughters 51
of registered hens 53
Eggs, fertility and hatching 105
bibliography 157
in second year 136
"infertile, percentage produced 123
relation between production and hatching quality' 133
of fertility to hen 122
of production to fertility 128
testing for fertility 110
value affected by distribution 45
variation in fertility and hatching quality 119
with age 30
Epicoccum granulatum 189
Euphrosyne 265
Fecundity in hens, inheritance of " 49
significance of term 81
Fertility and hatching of eggs 105
Fertilizer experiments with potatoes • .' 85
Fertilizers, home mixed, formulas 86
INDEX. 337
PAGE
Field exiK'i imcms in 1906-8 85
Formaldehyde for blackleg 324
Fruit trees affected by weather 12
F"ungus gnats, characters 210
habits and economic relations 214
North American 209
remedial measures 216
table of subfamilies 216
Fusarium oxysporium 2
Galls on spruce 203, 284, 290
Germicide, liquor cresolis compositus 36
Glomerella rufomoculans 10
Green winged Chermes 203
Hendersonia mali 186
Hens, see Poultry
conditions of breeding 108
registered, records 53
relation of fertility to 122
tests of inheritance of fecundity 60
Hesperinus 220
brcvifrons 221
Hesperodcs 241
johnsoni 241
Highmoor Farm
Hospital house for poultry 32-
Insects affecting the pine 28
Leaf blights of the potato i
Leaf-spot of apple, treatment 10
Lime as affecting potato scab 4
effects on clover 102
in seeding down lOI
Liquor cresolis compositus as a germicide 36
Macroneura 231
^facrocera 365
clara 271
concinna 272
diluta 267
formosa 270
geminata 272
hirsuta 269
immaculata 269
inconcinna 268
nel)ulosa 269
Macrocerinaj 265
Meteorological observations 329
Mustard, wild, eradiction 100
Mycetobia 223
divergens 223-
338
INDEX.
PAGE
marginalis 223
persicse 223
sordida 223
Mycetobiinx 222
Mycetophstus 222
Mycetophilidse of North America 209
Orchard diseases of the year 3
Oviduct of the hen, physiology of 29
Palasoplatyura 224
aldrichii 225
johnsoni 226
Pedigree poultry, breeding methods 35
Phoma maH 195
Phytophthora infestans 1,165,330
Phyllosticta limitata 187
Pine bhght 21
insect enemies 28
leaf Chermes 201,277
remedial measures 203
winter injury 21
Plant diseases in 1908 i
Platyura 246
diluta 261
divaricata 265
elegans 254
elegantula 264
fasciola 251
fascipennis 257
fasciventris 258
genualis 262
ignobilis 257
inops 252
lurida 253
melasoma 255
mendica 260
mendosa 259
mimula 255
moerens 262
moesta 259
nigrita 256
notabilis 257
parva 250
pictipennis 253
pullata 256
scapularis 263
setiger 252
subterminalis 261
tseniata 264
INDEX. 339-
PAGE
Plesiastina 228
Potato diseases of the year i
blight and weather conditions 173
seed, means of disinfecting 323
scab on limed soils 4
scab and Bordeaux mixture 9
Potatoes, blight resistant varieties 92
causes of decay 182
decay in storage ■ 181
effectiveness of spraying 180
epidemics of blight and rot 165
fertilizer experiments 85
high ridge culture 88
improper methods of spraying 176
trial of fungicides 96
when to spray 178
Poultry breeding methods 35
new buildings for 30
notes for igo8 29
technical studies published 29
Publications viii
Raphanus raphanistrum 100
Rhizoctonia 313
Rot and blight of potatoes 165
Sciara Thomas 215
militaris 215
Self-boiled lime-sulphur for apple scab 9
Sinapis arvensis 100
Sphoeropsis malorum 187
Spraying for plant lice 203
methods for potatoes 176
Spruce gall ^ 203, 284, 290
Staff, changes in xi
Sun scald of apple 18
Symmerus 228
annulata 231
bifasciata 229
lauta 231
lenis ' 229
mexicana 230
tristis 229
zonata 229
Target brand fungicide on potatoes 96
Trapnest, improved form 34
Treasurer's report 332
Two hundred-egg hens 49
Venturia inaequalis 4
340
INDEX.
PAGE
Weather as cause of crotch injury 17
effect upon fruit trees 12
report 331
White pine, winter injury 21
Wild mustard, eradication 100
Wing veins of Chermes, nomenclature 305
Winter injury of white pine 21
of fruit trees 12
Zelmira 246
THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Maine Apicultural Experiment Station
ORONO, MAINE.
909
STATE OF MAINE. 1910.
MAINE
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION ORONO, MAINE.
ORGANIZATION JANUARY TO JUNE 1909..
THE STATION COUNCIL.
PRESIDENT GEORGE E. FELLOWS DIRECTOR CHARLES D. WOODS JOHN A. ROBERTS, Norway . CHARLES L. JONES, Corinna . SAMUEL W. GOULD, Skowhegan AUGUSTUS W. GILMAN, Foxcroft EUGENE H. LIBBY, Auburn . CHARLES S. POPE, Manchester RUTILLUS ALDEN, Winthrop JAMES M. BARTLETT FREMONT L. RUSSELL EDITH M. PATCH WARNER J. MORSE RAYMOND PEARL HERMAN H. HANSON FRANK M. SURFACE CHARLES E. LEWIS
President Secretary
I Committee of Board of Trustees
Commissioner of Agriculture State Grange State Pomological Society State Dairymen's Association
Members of the Station Staff
CHARLES D.
BIOLOGY
THE STATION STAFF.
WOODS
RAYMOND PEARL . FRANK M. SURFACE FREMONT L. RUSSELL MAYNIE R. CURTIS . WALTER ANDERSON I LOTTIE E. McPHETERS I JAMES M. BARTLETT j HERMAN H. HANSON JOANNA C. COLCORD I JOSEPH F. MERRILL [ REX C. GELLERSON I EDITH M. PATCH I ALICE W. AVERILL 1 WARNER J. MORSE { CHARLES E. LEWIS [ FRANK D. STERRY ROYDON L. HAMMOND .
CHEMISTRY
ENTOMOLOGY
PLANT
PATHOLOGY
Director Biologist Associate Assistant A ssistant Poultryman Computer Chemist Associate A ssistant A ssistant Inspector Entomologist Laboratory Assistant . Pathologist Associate Laboratory Assistant Seed Analyst and Photographer
ANNIE M. SNOW . BLANCHE F. POOLER HENRY A. MILLETT
Clerk and Stenographer to the Director Stenographer Meteorological Observer and Janitor
MAINE
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION ORONO, MAINE.
ORGANIZATION JULY TO DECEMBER. 1909.
THE STATION COUNCIL.
PRESIDENT GEORGE E. FELLOWS DIRECTOR CHARLES D. WOODS JOHN A. ROBERTS, Norway . CHARLES L. JONES, Corinna SAMUEL W. GOULD, Skowhegan AUGUSTUS W. OILMAN, Foxcroft EUGENE H. LIBBY, Auburn . CHARLES S. POPE, Manchester RUTILLUS ALDEN, Winthrop .
President Secretary
Committee 0} Board of Trustees Commissioner of Agriculture State Grange State Pomological Society State Dairymen's Association
AND THE HEADS AND ASSOCIATES OF STATION DEPARTMENTS
THE STATION STAFF.
ADMINISTRATION
BIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY
ENTOMOLOGY
HORTICULTURE PLANT
PATHOLOGY
CHARLES D. WOODS, Sc. D. . Director
HARRY M. WOODS, A. B.. Asst. to the Director
BLANCHE F. POOLER . . Stenographer
RALPH K. JONES, B. S. . . Librarian
CHARLES J. DUNN . . . Treasurer
GRACE M. COLBURN . Bookkeeper
RAYMOND PEARL, Ph. D. . . Biologist
FRANK M. SURFACE, Ph. D. . Associate
MAYNIE R. CURTIS, A. M. . Assistant
WALTER ANDERSON . Poultryman
LOTTIE E. McPHETERS Computer
JAMES M. BARTLETT, M. S. Cliemist
HERMAN H. HANSON, M. S. . Associate
JOSEPH F. MERRILL, B. S. . Assistant
ALBERT G. DURGIN, M. S. . Assistant
EDITH M. PATCH, B. S. . Entomologist
OSKAR A. JOHANNSEN, Ph. D. Associate
ALICE W. AVERILL WALTER W. BONNS, WARNER J. MORSE, CHARLES E. LEWIS, JOHN SUMMERS
HIGH MOOR FARM ROYDEN L. HAMMON HENRY A. MILLETT
. Laboratory Assistant B. S. . Associate
M. S. Pathologist Ph. D. . Associate . Laboratory Assistant WELLINGTON SINCLAIR . Superintendent D . . . Seed Analyst and Photographer Meteorological Observer and Janitor
The publications of this Station will be sent free to any address in Maine. All requests should be sent to
Agricultural Experiment Station,
Orono, Maine.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Organization of the Station ii
Announcements vi
Historical Notes vii
Notes on Plant Diseases, 1908 (Bulletin 164) i
Poultry Notes (Bulletin 165) 29
Inheritance of Fecundity (Bulletin 166) 49
Field Experiments, 1906-8 (Bulletin 167) 85
The Fertility and Hatching of Eggs (Bulletin 168) 105
Two Epidemics of Potato Blight and Rot (Bulletin 169) 165
Apple Diseases Caused by Coryneum joliicolum and Phoma malt
(Bulletin 170) 185
The Pine-leaf and Green-winged Chermes (Bulletin 171) 201
Fungus Gnats Part I. (Bulletin 172) 209
Chermes of Maine Conifers (Bulletin 173) 277
Blackleg, a Bacterial Disease of the Irish Potato (Bulletin 174) 309
Meteorology (Bulletin 175) 329
Report of Treasurer (Bulletin 175) 332
Index 1909 (Bulletin 175) 334
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
THE AIM OF the; station.
Every citizen of Maine concerned in agriculture has the right to apply to the Station for any assistance that comes within its province. It is the wish of the Trustees and Station Council that the Station be as widely useful as its resources will permit.
In addition to its work of investigation, the Station is -pre- pared to make chemical analyses of fertilizers, feeding stuffs, dairy products and other agricultural materials ; to test seeds and creamery glassware; to identify grasses, weeds, injurious fungi and insects, etc. ; and to give information on agricultural matters of interest and advantage to the citizens of the State.
All work proper to the Experiment Station and of public benefit will be done without charge. Work for the private use of individuals is charged for at the actual cost to the Station. The Station offers to do this work only as a matter of accommo- dation. Under no condition will the Station undertake analyses, the results of which cannot be published, if they prove of gen- eral interest.
CORRESPONDENCE.
As far as practicable, letters are answered the day they are received. Letters sent to individual officers are liable to remain unanswered, in case the officer addressed is absent. All com- munications, should, therefore, be addressed to the Director or to the
Agricultural Experiment Station,
Orono, Maine.
The post-office, railroad station, freight, express and telegraph address is Orono, Maine. Visitors to the Station can take the electric cars at Bangor and Old Town.
The Station is connected by telephone.
(
HISTORICAL NOTES FOR 1909.
HiGHMOOR Farm.
The Legislature of 1909 appropriated $10,000 for the pur- chase of a farm on which the Maine AgricuUural Experiment Station shall conduct experiments in orcharding and with corn and other farm crops. The committee on selection have decided upon Highmoor Farm situated in the counties of Ken- nebec and Androscoggin, and largely in the town of Monmouth, The farm consists of 225 acres, about 200 of which are in orchards, fields and pastures. There are in the neighborhood of 4,cco apple trees upon the place which have been set from 10 to 20 3'ears. The fields that are not in orchard are well adapted to experiments with corn, potatoes and similar general farm crops. The house is two-storied with a large wing and contains about 15 rooms and is well arranged for Experiment Station offices and the home of the farm superintendent. The barn is large ; arranged for 32 head of cattle and 6 horses. The buildings are supplied with running water from a never failing spring situated on the farm. The Farmington branch of the iMaine Central Railroad bounds the farm on the west and it is expected that a flag station will be made at the farm.
The farm is purchased in the name of the State but by law "the Director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station shall have the general management, supervision and control of the said farm and of all investigations thereon."
The property was acquired so late in the season that no inves- tigational work could be undertaken in 1909. It is planned to begin another season studies upon orchard management, corn and oat breeding and potato culture. The farm will be used not merely for practical field experiments in horticulture and agri- culture but also for studies of practical problems by the ento- mologists, plant pathologists and biologists of the Station.
viii MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I909.
Publications.
The Station is organized so that the work of investigation is distinct from the work of inspection. The results of investi- gation are published in the bulletins of the Station. These make up the annual report for the year. The results of the work of inspection are printed in publications known as Official Inspections. These are paged independently of the bulletins and are bound in with the annual report as an appendix thereto'. Miscellaneous publications consisting of newspaper notices of bulletins, newspaper bulletins and circulars which are not paged consecutively and are not included in the annual report are issued during each year.
All of the bulletins issued by the Station are sent to the names upon the official mailing list prepared by the Office of Experi- ment Stations, to all newspapers in Maine and to libraries and to agricultural exchanges. Bulletins which have to do with general agriculture and the Official Inspections which bear upon the feeding stuffs, fertilizer and seed inspections are sent to a general mailing list composed chiefly of farmers within the State. The publications having to dO' with the food and drug inspection are sent to a special list including all dealers in Maine and other citizens who request them. The annual report is sent to directors of experiment stations and to libraries. Copies of all publications are sent to the newspapers within the State and to the press on the exchange list outside of the State.
BULLETINS PUBLISHED IN I909.
No. 164. Notes on Plant Diseases, 1908 28 pages
No. 165. Poultry Notes 20 pages
No. 166. Inheritance of Fecundity in Poultry 36 pages
No. 167. Field Experiments in 1906-8 20 pages
No. 168. The Fertility and Hatching of Eggs 60 pages
No. 169. Two Epidemics of Potato' Blight and Rot. 20 pages
No. 170. Apple Diseases caused by Coryneum folli-
colum and Phoina mali 16 pages
No. 171. Pine Leaf and Green Winged Chermes. . . 8 pages
No. 172. Fungus Gnats, Part 1 68 pages
No. 173. Chermes of Maine Conifers 32 pages
No. 174. Blackleg: A Bacterial Disease of Potatoes 20 pages
No. 175. Meteorology, Finances, Index 12 pages
HISTORICAL NOTES. ix MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS IN I909.
No. 338. Fertilizer manufacturers affidavit i page
No. 339. Official Inspections 7 8 pages
No. 340. Abstract of Bulletin 166 4 pages
No. 341. Official Inspections 8 8 pages
No. 342. Official Inspections 9 16 pages
No. 343. Notice of hearings i page
No. 344. Official Inspections 10 28 pages
No. 345. Crown Gall of the Apple i page
No. 346. Newspaper Notice, Bulletin 164 i page
No. 347. List of Bulletins i page
No. 348.- Newspaper Notice, Bulletin 165 i page
No. 349. Newspaper Notice, Bulletin 166 i page
No. 350. Official Inspections 11 12 pages
No. 351. Newspaper Notice, Bulletin 167 i page
No. 352. How to Keep Poultry Free From Lice. . . 4 pages
No. 353. Official Inspections 12 20 pages
No. 354. Newspaper notice, Circular 353 i page
No. 355. Deformed Apples in Maine i page
No. 356. Not printed.
No. 357. Official Inspections 13 8 pages
No. 358. Offxial Inspections 14 40 pages
No. 359. Tiger Aloths and Woolly Bear Caterpillars 4 pages
No. 360. Seed letter i page
No. 361. Official Inspections 15 12 pages
No. 362. Field Day at Highmoor Farm i page
No. 363. Abstract Bulletin 168 8 pages
No. 364. Not printed.
No'. 365. Official Inspections 16 12 pages
No. 366. Form for describing seed samples i page
No. 367. Newspaper Notice, Bulletin 169 i page
No. 368. Official Inspections 17 16 pages
No. 369. Poultry work of the Station 8 pages
No. 370. Official Inspections 18 12 pages
BIOLOGY PUBLICATIONS. 1909.
No. 9. The Use of Atropin Sulphate in Anesthetizing Birds for Surgical Experiments. By R. Pearl and F. 'SI. Surface. Journ. Amer. ^led. Assoc. Vol. LII, PP- 382. 383. 1909.
X MAINE AGRICUI.TURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I909.
No. 10. Studies on the Physiology of Reproduction in the Domestic Fowl. II. Data on the Inheritance of Fecundity Obtained from the Records of Egg Production of the Daughters of "200-egg" Hens. By R. Pearl and F. M. Surface. Maine Agr. Expt. Station, Bulletin No. 166, pp. 48-84. 1909.
No. II. Selection Index Numbers and their Use in Breeding. By R. Pearl and F. M. Surface. Amer. Nat. Vol. XLIII, pp. 385-400. 1909.
No. 12. Is there a Cumulative Effect of Selection? Data from the Study of Fecundity in the Domestic Fowl. By R. Pearl and F. M. Surface. Zeitschr. f . Abst.-u. V ererb.-Lehre. (In press).
No". 13. Studies on the Physiology of Reproduction in the Domestic Fowl. III. A Case of Incomplete Hermaphroditism. By R. Pearl and M. R. Curtis. Biol. Bulletin, Vol. XVII, pp. 271-286. PI. I & II, 1909.
No. 14. Studies on the Physiology of Reproduction in the Domestic Fowl. IV. Data on Certain Factors Influencing the Fertility and Hatching of Eggs. By R. Pearl and F. M. Sur- face, Maine Agr. Expt. Statio'n, Bulletin 168, pp. 105-164. 1909.
No. 15. A Triple Yolked Egg. By R. Pearl. Zool. Anz. (In press).
ENTOMOLOGY PUBLICATIONS, 1909.
No. 33. Homologies of the Wing Veins of the Aphididas, Psyllidje, Aleurodidse, and Coccidje. Annals of the Ento- mological So'ciety of America. Vol. II. No. 2. pp. 101-129. 1909.
No. 34. Pemphigus venafuscus n. sp. Entomol. News. p. 319. 1909.
No. 35. The Desmodium Aphid, Microparsus variabilis n. sp. Entomol. News. p. 337. 1909.
No. 36. Downy Psyllid of Alder, Psylla Hoccosa n. sp. Canadian Entomol. p. 301. 1909.
No. 37. The Pine-leaf Chermes. The Green-winged Chermes. Maine Agr. Expt. Sta. Bulletin 171. 1909.
No. 38. The Fungus Gnats of North America. Me. Agr. Expt. Station Bulletin 172.
No. 39. Chermes of Maine Conifers. Me. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bulletin 173.
HISTORICAL NOTES.
xi
OFFICIAL INSPECTION'S, I909.
No. 7. Standards for beverages.
No. 8. Bleached flour, benzoate of soda, sulphur dioxide, ice cream standards, flavoring extracts.
No. 9. Fertilizer Inspection. Analyses of Manufacturers Samples.
No. 10. Feeding Stufi^ Inspection.
No. II. Soda and cream of tartar, sweet corn, maple sugar, spices and pepper, sweet spirit of nitre, rice, alcohol.
No. 12. Text of the laws regulating the sale of: Agricultural seeds, apples, creamery glassware, feeding stuffs, fertilizers, and foods and drugs.
No. 13. Coffee, gelatine, sweet oil, honey.
No. 14. Food and Drug Law Standards and Regulations.
No. 15. Apples, catchup, cocoa, extracts, spirit of nitrous ether, oysters.
No. 16. Thickeners for ice cream, jams, jellies, preserves,
chemicals in food, whiskey, and rice. No. 17. Seed Inspection, 1909.
No. 18. Analyses of drugs. The druggist and the law.
CHANGES IN STAFF.
June 30, 1909, Prof. F. L. Russell, resigned from the Station Staff to devote his whole time to teaching in the University. Doctor Russell had been a member of the Experiment Station staff since its reorganization and enlargement in 1888.
Frank D. Sterry, Laboratory Assistant in Plant Pathology resigned from the Experiment Station June i, 1909. IMiss Joanna C. Colcord, Assistant Chemist; Miss Annie M. Snow, Clerk and Stenographer to the Director; Mr. R. C. Gellerson, Inspector, resigned from the Experiment Station staff June 30, 1909, and ]\rr. Joseph F. Merrill, Assistant Chemist, resigned December 6, 1909.
July I, 1909, Mr. Albert G. Durgin, M. S., was appointed Assistant Chemist; Mr. Harry M. Woods, A. B., Assistant to the Director ; Mr. Wellington Sinclair, Superintendent of High- moor Farm ; and Mr. John Summers as Laboratory Assistant in Plant Pathology.
xii MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I909.
September i, 1909, Oscar A. Johannsen, Ph.D., came to the Station as Associate Entomologist, and Mr. Walter W. Bonns, B. S., as Associate Horticulturist.
September i, 1909, Mr. Charles J. Dunn of Orono succeeded Hon. I. K. Stetson of Bangor as Treasurer of the Station.
0 m
\