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Until the present fiscal year, the Station has carried the seed work 

 and the examination of Babcock glassware without any appropria- 

 tions for that purpose by the State and has used funds for this work 

 which were not intended to be applied in these directions. The 

 Legislature of 1913 made appropriations covering all inspection work. 



investigations relative to hop culture. 



The Legislature of 1913 appropriated $5,000 for conducting 

 investigations in hop culture. Work in this direction was established 

 at Hartwick, Otsego county. During the past season, attention 

 was given only to the control of the mildew so seriously affecting 

 the hop plant, and the results reached by the use of sulphur are 

 very encouraging, as it appeared that a fair control of the disease 

 was accomplished. It is proposed to enlarge this work by including 

 problems relative to culture and the use of fertilizers. It may be 

 possible to take up questions relative to the breeding of the plant. 



investigations relative to grape culture. 



For several years there has been located in Chautauqua county 

 what is known as the Fredonia Grape Laboratory, the purpose of 

 which has been to study various problems affecting the production 

 of grapes. These problems have included chiefly the maintenance 

 of fertility and the suppression of fungus and insect pests which 

 prey upon the grape vine. There will soon be published a bulletin 

 giving the outcome of the experiments with fertilizers, in which will 

 be detailed results that are very encouraging to the grape-grower. 

 Reasonable success has been reached in the control of the fungus 

 and insect pests, and bulletins discussing several of these have been 

 issued. There seems to be no doubt that the work, so far, 

 gives promise of repaying many times the cost of the investigations. 



It is now proposed to extend this type of work to the Keuka 

 Lake region. A lease has already been effected of about twenty-two 

 acres of grape land, mostly covered with bearing vines, around 

 which will center the proposed inquiries. Problems in this latter 

 district are somewhat different from those in the Chautauqua district. 

 The work undertaken will have reference to these differences. 



