DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR 1901.' 



To the Honorable Board of Control of the New York Agrioultural 

 Ea:periment Htation: 



Gentlemen. — I have the honor to present herewith a report 

 for the year 1901 of the institution under your charge. As in 

 former years, this report, outside of the matter dealing with the 

 various lines of inspection, is made up chiefly of the results of 

 investigations and experiments of a scientific or semi-scientiflc 

 character. In other words, it is mainly a presentation of the 

 outcome of efforts to study problems or conditions important 

 to the practice of agriculture and is not intended, for the most 

 part, to convey information of a common or general character. 

 This is in accordance with the well established policy of holding 

 the Station to the work of investigation rather than of instruc- 

 tion, a policy entirely harmonious with fundamental con- 

 ceptions and the legal provisions applying to this institution. 



The contents of this report make it very evident also that, 

 excepting the inspection work, the members of the Station staff 

 are dealing largely with problems particularly alTecting the 

 dairy and horticultural interests, a condition of things quite 

 consistent with the status and demajids of the agricultural 

 industries of New York. Dairying is predominant in the stock 

 husbandry of the State and the commanding importance of our 

 gardening and fruit interests cannot be denied by any one 

 familiar with the facts. Moreover, in dairying and fruit grow- 

 ing there come to the front certain questions of a chemical, 

 botanical, bacteriological or entomological character, so specific 

 an;l so w(dl defined, that they offer promising and useful oppor- 



*A icDrint of Bulletin No. 211. 



