51S REPORT OF Farmers' Institutes 



Potato Growing on Long Island, H. R. Talmage. 

 The Potato Situation in Western New York, C. R. White. 

 Potato Growing in Northern New York, C. B. Tillson. 

 Standardization of Seed Potatoes: 



F. C. Stewart. 



E. H. Forristall. 



C. B. Tillson. 



O. F. Ross. 

 The Potato as a Food, Ida S. Harrington. 

 Statistics. 

 Index. 



In January, 1916, Bulletin 79 was issued, " The Fruit Indus- 

 try of New York State," in two volumes, all in all the most com- 

 prehensive and voluminous of all the institute 'bulletins, with the 

 possible exception of Bulletin -H. Volume I contains 351 pages, 

 and takes up the industry as a whole, especially that relating to 

 the apple. Volume II contains 152 pages, and is devoted to 

 pears and other varieties of fruit grown in. the state. There are 

 altogether 79 articles with 313 illustrations. The tables of con- 

 tents and writers follow: 



Volume I 

 Introduction. 



The Fruit Districts of New York, U. P. Hedrick. 

 The Nursery Industry in New York, Samuel Fraser. 

 Various Methods of Refrigeration and Its Advantage to the Public, 



George H. McKay. 

 The Apple Grading Law, B. D. Van Buren. 

 The Apple-packing Train, F. S. Welsh. 

 Inspection Work of the Department of Agriculture in Relation to 



Horticulture, George G. Atwood. 

 History of Fruit Exhibits at State Fair, H. B. Knapp. 

 Horticultural Exhibits and Wimt They Mean to tlie Fruit Interests of 

 the State of New York. 



Exhibit of New York Fruit at the Columbian Exposition, Edward 



van Alstyne. 

 New York Fruit at the Pan-American Exijosition in 1901, F. E. 



Dawley. 

 New York Fruit at the Land Shows and San Francisco Exposition, 

 Charles G. Porter. 

 The Western New York Horticultural Society, John Hall. 

 The New York State Fruit Growers' Association, E. C. Gillett. 

 Hudson River Fruit Exchange, W. Y. Velie. 



