CoRNEiyi. University, Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. i, 1897. 

 The Honorable Commissioner of Agricui.ture, Ai^bany. 



Sir: The following account of a currant disease, of which 

 almost nothing has heretofore been known, is submitted as a 

 bulletin under provision of Chapter 437 of the laws of 1896. This 

 cane-blight is probably more widespread and serious than anyone 

 has suspected, and it would not surprise us if it should be found 

 that much of the trouble with currants which is laid to hard 

 winters and poor soil is really the result of the work of this 

 fungus. L,. H. Bailey. 



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I. General character of the disease, „.---- 23 



II. Botanical character of the disease, _ _ _ . 25 



III. Remedies, 38 



