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The most conspicuously interesting work conducted in Ontario 

 County was in the township of Phelps, where Mr. Witter makes 

 the following report of his assistance to the Empire State Pickling 

 Company : 



" I suijerintended the cutting of cabbage on experimental plats, 

 looking after all of the field work. A section of about 41^ acres 

 was covered with the experiment. It was eminently satisfactory 

 to the company. The results will be tabulated later and sent in. 

 The final results were not much different from those of last year. 

 But little — in fact, no increase of cabbage was shown from the 

 use of potash, and acid phosphate showed an increase of about 

 fifty per cent. The Empire State Pickling Company said the 

 experiments that I had carried on had been worth thousands of 

 dollars to them." 



In the large majority of cases, Mr. Witter's advice was carried 

 out, both in cases where it had been solicited and in those where it 

 had not, with earnest purpose and gratifying results. Occasion- 

 ally, a farmer was found so poor that he could not do even adequate 

 spraying, for example, but encouragement and interest even in 

 such cases proved productive of surprising improvements. 



COOPEEATIVE WORK WITH STATE ENTOMOLOGIST E. P. FELT 



There have been given in previous years from the institute plat- 

 form a number of lectures on the work of State Entomologist E. P. 

 Felt in Hudson Valley orchards, advocating one thorough spraying 

 for the control of codling moth. It was apparent to many in the 

 fruit counties along the Ontario shores that these words seemed 

 like " idle tales." While no one questioned the truth of the state- 

 ment, it was said that conditions must be different in western New 

 York, some even going so far as to suggest that they had a more 

 hardy brood of moth than was found in eastern New York. The 

 matter was of such vital importance that Dr. Eelt was asked to 

 undertake a series of experiments in the western New York fruit 

 district similar to those previously conducted in the Hudson 

 Valley. This the doctor willingly undertook, his services being 

 without cost to the Department of Agriculture and the BureaAi of 

 Farmers' Institutes, the latter paying the traveling and other 

 expenses incident to the work. 



