108 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



cuhurist pfoin*; (o the Iowa collofjo and station and bcin^ sucroodod by 

 U. P. Hcdrick, of Michigan. Otlici- cliaiif^cs have occiii-i-cd tlirough 

 the resignation of assistants to acce])t better paid oi- iiioic attractive 

 positions elsewhere, and one <l('ath has occurred, that of W. II. 

 Andrews, for more than 10 years assistant chemist of the station. 



The New York State Station continues to be maintained on a high 

 plane of scientific thoroughness combined with practical efficiency. 

 With a strong organization and relatively large resources it is accuuui- 

 lating results of increasing inii)ortance to the State and the nation. 

 Its operations are being extended with a view of meeting more 

 definitely the needs of different agricultural regions of the State, and 

 it is planning to further increase enterprises having for their prin- 

 cipal aim the demonstration of the practical benefits of the results of 

 its researches and the adapting of these results to the actual require- 

 ments of agricultural practice in different regions. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The i^rincipal lines of work conducted at the New York Sta- 

 tion during the past year were as follows: Chemistry — study of prob- 

 lems in cheese ripening, of changes in milk, and of fertilizers and feed- 

 ing stuffs; bacteriology — study of problems in cheese ripening, tests 

 of methods for the repression of rusty spot in cheese, and study of 

 nitrocultures ; meteorology ; fertilizers — stud}^ of the proportions 

 and forms of fertilizing ingredients best suited to the staple crops of 

 the State; analysis and control of fertilizers; inspection of feeding 

 stuffs, Paris green, and creamery glassware; field experiments — 

 tests of commercial fertilizers and stable manure on crops in rota- 

 tion, study of crops grown on soils treated with crude chemicals, and 

 cooperative tests of forage and soil-renovating crops, variety tests of 

 cowpeas and wheat, growth of mother beets to test the possibility of 

 raising sugar-beet seed ; horticulture — study of the cause and effect 

 of self -sterility among grapes, effect of fertilizers on the quality of 

 strawberries and Inisli fruits, tests of various stocks for native grapes 

 and for dwarf apples, comjDarison of American and Japanese chest- 

 nuts, use of screens for shading strawberries, experiments with 

 apples in cold storage, breeding of grapes, raspberries, currants, 

 gooseberries, and strawberries, test of lettuce fertilizers in the green- 

 house, systems of management in apple orchards, collection of data 

 to determine the significance of correlation of parts as a factor in 

 plant breeding; diseases of plants — investigations and experiments 

 in the treatment of raspberry and blackberry diseases, especially cane 

 blight, study of diseases of apples, ten-year test of the efficiency of 

 spraying potatoes to prevent disease and to increase yield, test of 

 repressive measures for black rot of cabbage and cauliflower, with 



