8 Agrioultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Ko. 77. The Grafting of Grapes. 



78. The Cabbage Root Maggot, with notes on the Onion 



Maggot and Allied Insects. 



79. Varieties and Leaf- Blight of the Strawberry. 



80. The Quince in Western Xew York. 



81. Black-Knot of Plums and Cherries, and Methods of 



Treatment. 



82. Experiments with Tuberculin on Nontuberculous Cows. 



83. A Plum Scale in Western New York. 



The past year has been most fruitful in valuable results and 

 the appreciation of our work has been more marked than ever. 



The addition to the available funds has made it possible for 

 the StatioQ to cover a wide field in both applied and scientific 

 agriculture. Notwithstanding the numerous publications many 

 valuable results of the year's work, perhaps the most valuable, 

 are either in manuscript form or are unwritten, and I await the 

 time when funds will permit publication. 



The usual Omnibus bulletin which served to record the results 

 of the minor investigations of the year of all departments has 

 been omitted since the year's work has resulted in furnishing 

 abundant material for all the monograph bulletins which could 

 be published. 



A careful inspection of the 22 bulletins will reveal the activity 

 of the various departments, the commendable character of the 

 work and the great value to all classes of agriculture which these 

 modest publications contain. 



Nearly all of the divisions of necessity desire that some chem- 

 ical work be done which bears directly upon the particular prob- 

 lem under investigation. This results in so overloading the 

 Chemical Division that it is unable to carry on. original research 

 in its own field of operations to the extent desired. These con- 

 ditions should be changed by employing a second assistant for a 

 portion of the year. 



