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The crop of 191 1 consisted of 2450 barrels, of which 200*^) 

 barrels contained no fruit smaller than 21-4 inches, of magnifi- 

 cent color, great size and free from worm holes or fungous 

 spots of any kind. This means that practically all were either 

 Fancy or Number 1 grade. 



/Vnother striking comparison is that of the proportion of 

 marketable and cider apples. In 191 1, with a crop of quality 

 suitable for market in barrels to the number of almost 2500, 

 the cull or cider apples were about 1-3 the number of those 

 produced in the year that yielded but 90 barrels of marketable 

 fruit. 



Plant Pathology. 



A large amount of loss is caused each year in Maine by 

 plant diseases. Realizing the importance to the farmers of the 

 State of preventing this loss, the Station has given more or less 

 attention to plant disease work ever since it was established. 

 Within the last 15 years the amount of this work has been 

 greatly increased. This Station was the first in this country to 

 show^ that spraying potatoes on a large scale with bordeaux 

 mixture is both practicable and profitable. 



With the establishment of a separate department of plant 

 pathology 6 years ago it has been possible to do more work in 

 the investigation of plant diseases. A study of the causes of 

 disease is important in any case because in the end the preven- 

 tion must be based upon a knowledge of the cause. This 

 department is equipped for the investigation of diseases of all 

 economic plants of the State but the work has been largely 

 confined to apple and potato diseases on account of the impor- 

 tance of these crops. 



potato scab. 



Potato scab is a disease which causes a great deal of loss 

 each year. The damage done by the fungus wdiich causes this 

 disease cannot be measured by the loss to the crop of a single 

 year because the organism is able to live over in the soil and 

 continue the disease year after year. Much care should be 

 taken to keep this fungus out of land wdiich is known to be 

 clean. Land becomes infected, for the most part, in two ways, 



