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fruit-growing. There has been a continuously increasing demand 

 for special winter-course instruction in horticulture. This we have 

 tried to meet in an improvised manner by arranging a course in fruit- 

 growing, vegetable-gardening and floriculture for the winter of 1906. 



.3. PUBLICATIONS. 



Three bulletins have been issued during the year. Two of them 

 were prepared imder the direction of the horticulturist by G. F. 

 Warren, a student of the graduate school taking major work in 

 horticulture, and gave the results of an exhaustive study of the apple 

 industr}^ of Wajaie and Orleans counties. The first, that of Wayne 

 county, comprised 183 pages; the second, Orleans county, 42 pages. 

 Both of these have been much appreciated by fruit-growers in these 

 counties, and in other parts of tlie state. There is a demand for 

 further investigation of this nature. The third bulletin gave the 

 results of experience and experiments in growing some of the leading 

 forcing-house crops. 



JOHN CRAIG, 

 Professor of Horticulture. 



IV. ENTOMOLOGY. 



I herewith transmit a report on the entomological work of the 

 Station during the past year under the auspices of the State fund. 

 The report has been prepared by the assistant entomologist at my 

 request, as nearly all the entomological work has been done bv him. 



J. H. COMSTOck, 

 Professor of Entomology 



REPORT OF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SLINGERLAND. 



The work of the Entomological Division of the Station during 

 the past 3^ear has been concentrated along a few important lines. 

 Some of the work begun last year has been finished, and considerable 

 new work has been done, or is now in progress. Co-operative spray- 

 ing experiments were continued with several prominent fruit-growers 

 and some valuable results obtained. The life-histories of some new 

 and important shade-tree pests have been worked out. Much time 

 has been consumed in teaching and correspondence work. 



