Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., October i, 1894. 

 The Honorable Commissioner of Agriculture, Albany. 



Sir : The following review of the condition of the peach in- 

 dustry in the Fifth Judicial Department of the state, is submitted 

 for publication under Section 87, Chapter 675, of the laws of 1894. 

 Various experiments in the treatment of peach diseases and in the 

 fertilizing of peach orchard lands are now under way. 



L. H. BAILEY. 



