Report of the Director. 



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The Pistol-Case-Bearer in Western New York. 



A Disease of Currant Canes. 



The Currant-Stem Girdler and The Raspberry- 



A Second Account of Sweet Peas. 



A Talk About Dahlias. 



How to Conduct Field Experiments [with Fer- 



Potato Culture. 



Notes upon Plums for Western New York. 



Notes upon Celery. 



The Army -Worm in New York. 



Strawberries under Glass. 



Forage Crops. 



Chrysanthemums of 1896. 



Agricultural Extension Work : Sketch of its Ori- 

 gin and Progress. 



Circular No. 5, Concerning Co-operative Tillage Experi- 

 ments. 



Circular No. 6, Directions for the Application of the Fer- 

 tilizers and Records to be made. 



Brief reports of the progress of the work in charge of the 

 various divisions of the Station and the Treasurer's report are 

 hereunto appended, together with a detailed and classified re- 

 port of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1897. 



Assistant Professor of Dairy Husbandry H. H. Wing has 

 been given a leave of absence for nine months, and is now in 

 Europe, making an extended study of the dairy industries of 

 England, Holland, Sweden and Denmark. Therefore no report 

 of progress in dairy husbandry is submitted. It may be said 

 that extended investigations have been and are being conducted 

 along dairy lines, the results of which will be pubhshed in the 

 early part of next year. 



Some extended investigations have recently been instituted by 

 the Veterinary Division of the Station for the purpose of securing 

 a fuller knowledge of the causes of contagious abortion in milch 



