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complete success and I believe I am safe in saying that we 

 this season saved the greater part of the hop crop of the State 

 from complete destruction by our advice and assistance to 

 growers through the fellows in field laiboratories in two of the 

 largest hop growing regions of the State. 



In addition to these we have, under industrial fellowships or 

 similar financial cooperation, investigations in progress on dis- 

 eases of truck crops, ginseng, florists' crops, potato diseases, 

 etc. We are meeting to a far greater extent the demands of 

 our growers for plant disease investigations than we could 

 ever have hoped to do with state funds alone. 



THE OUTLOOK. 



We look forward to great growth and development of this 

 type of cooperation not only in New York but in other states 

 as well; not only along lines of plant disease control but also 

 along other lines of agricultural investigation. Already evi- 

 dences of this are beginning to come to our notice. We have 

 at Cornell in horticulture, soils, and plant breeding, similar 

 cooperative work under way. In Wisconsin the pea growers 

 are supporting an expert at the college of agriculture for the 

 study of diseases of field peas. This new type of cooperation, 

 financial in nature, sound from a business point of view and 

 most effective from an economic standpoint, has come to stay. 

 It appeals to the live up-to-date director of investigations, it 

 opens an unlimited field of operation and research for trained, 

 ambitious young scientists, it provides a means by which grow- 

 ers with problems of pressing importance may secure prompt 

 and eflfective assistance, it opens opportunities to commercial 

 concerns with agricultural products, to extend the knowledge 

 and use of these products to the mutual benefit of growers and 

 manufacturer. It in no wise degrades or deteriorates scienti- 

 fic investigation ; it stimulates, vitalizes, dignifies it. It brings 

 to the grower fuller appreciation of the value of science in 

 agriculture, it educates him. It brings to science the hearty 

 espousal of its cause by the grower and the unlimited financial 

 support which it deserves. 



Gentlemen, the day will come and you will live to see it 

 when we will have in the State of New York more than a 



