of the

New York State College of Agriculture

at Cornell University

and of the

Agricultural Experiment Station

Established under the Direction

of Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

1916

VOLUME I

Transmitted to the Legislature January 15, 1917

J. B. Lyon Company, Printers

No. 21

IN SENATE

TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell
University and of the Agricultural Experiment
Station Established under the Direction
of Cornell University

STATE OF NEW YORK

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

ALBANY, January 15, 1917

To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New York:

In accordance with the provisions of the statutes relating thereto, I have the honor to transmit herewith the Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, as a part of the Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture.

CHARLES S. WILSON,

Commissioner of Agriculture.

NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

FACULTY

Jacob Gould Schurman, A.M., D.Sc., LL.D., President of the University.

Beverly Thomas Galloway, B.Agr.Sc., LL.D., Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Station.

Isaac Phillips Roberts, M.Agr., Professor of Agriculture, Emeritus.

John Henry Comstock, B.S., Professor of Entomology and General Invertebrate Zoology, Emeritus.

Henry Hiram Wing, M.S. in Agr., Professor of Animal Husbandry.

Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Ph.D., Professor of Soil Technology.

John Lemuel Stone, B.Agr., Professor of Farm Practice.

James Edward Rice, B.S.A., Professor of Poultry Husbandry.

George Walter Cavanaugh, B.S., Professor of Chemistry in its Relations to Agriculture.
George Nieman Lauman, B.S.A., Professor of Rural Economy.
Herbert Hice Whetzel, M.A., Professor of Plant Pathology.
Elmer O. Fippin, B.S.A., Extension Professor of Soil Technology.
George Frederick Warren, Ph.D., Professor of Farm Management.
William Alonzo Stocking, jr., M.S.A., Professor of Dairy Industry.
Charles Henry Tuck, A.B., Professor of Extension Teaching.

Albert Russell Mann, B.S.A., A. M., Professor of Rural Social Organization.
Wilford Murry Wilson, M.D., Professor of Meteorology.

Ralph Sheldon Hosmer, B.A.S., Professor of Forestry.

James George Needham, Ph.D., Professor of Entomology and Limnology.

Bryant Fleming, B.S.A., Professor of Landscape Art.

Rollins Adams Emerson, B.Sc., D.Sc., Professor of Plant Breeding.

Harry Houser Love, Ph.D., Professor of Plant Breeding Investigations.

Arthur Witter Gilbert, Ph.D., Professor of Plant Breeding.

Donald Reddick, Ph.D., Professor of Plant Pathology.

Edward Gerrard Montgomery, M.A., Professor of Farm Crops.

George Alan Works, B.Ph., M.S. in Agr., Professor of Rural Education.

Flora Rose, B.S., M.A., Professor of Home Economics.

Martha Van Rensselaer, A.B., Professor of Home Economics.

William Albert Riley, Ph.D., Professor of Insect Morphology and Parasitology.
James Adrian Bizzell, Ph.D., Professor of Soil Technology.

Glenn Washington Herrick, B.S.A., Professor of Economic Entomology, and Entomologist of the Experiment Station.

Howard Wait Riley, M.E., Professor of Rural Engineering.

Harold Ellis Ross, M.S.A., Professor of Dairy Industry.
Hugh Charles Troy, B.S.A., Professor of Dairy Industry.

Samuel Newton Spring, B.A., M.F., Professor of Forestry.

Karl McKay Wiegand, Ph.D., Professor of Botany.

William Henry Chandler, M.S. in Agr., Professor of Research in Pomology.

Arthur Bernhard Recknagel, B.A., M.F., Professor of Forestry.

Merritt Wesley Harper, M.S., Professor of Animal Husbandry.

Cyrus Richard Crosby, A.B., Extension Professor of Entomology,

Elmer Seth Savage, M.S.A., Ph.D., Professor of Animal Husbandry.

Kenneth Carter Livermore, M.S. in Agr., Professor of Farm Management.
Edward Albert White, B.S., Professor of Floriculture.

Alvin Casey Beal, Ph.D., Professor of Floriculture.

Herbert Andrew Hopper, B.S.A., Extension Professor of Animal Husbandry.
Edward Sewall Guthrie, M.S. in Agr., Ph.D., Professor of Dairy Industry.

Maurice Chase Burritt, M.S. in Agr., Extension Professor and State Director of Farm

Bureaus.