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tories and grounds of the institution. As a rule, it is necessary 

 to go where the particular problem exists in order to study it. For 

 illustration, the problems related to grape culture must be studied 

 in a grape-growing district, and the same is true of hops, tobacco 

 and other special crops. 



During the season of 1913, the Experiment Station conducted 

 experimental work relative to twenty-five different problems in 

 sixty townships and on 101 farms. These experimental efforts 

 varied in size from work covering ten or more acres as in the case 

 of the Auchter orchard and the experimental vineyard in Fredonia, 

 which are extended over a period of not less than ten 3'ears, to 

 experiments, on several areas, of a temporary character such as spray- 

 ing an orchard for testing the efficacy of a particular spraying liquid. 

 This work is not done primarily for educational purposes, but, in 

 each case, the purpose was to acquire information. Nevertheless, 

 these experiments have educational value to any farmers and fruit- 

 growers who take the trouble to observe the results reached and, 

 in this way, an experimental area may serve a most useful purpose 

 to all of the fruit-growers or other producers in the district surround- 

 ing the farm where the experiment is located. The first considera- 

 tion, however, is not to teach that which is known, but to get a 

 larger vision concerning that which is not known. 



There follows a list of subjects investigated, together with the 

 name of the cooperator and the location of the experiment. The 

 Station wishes to express its obligations to the various persons who 

 have so kindly and efficiently cooperated with it in these various 

 efforts. A discussion of some of the results reached in connection 

 with these experiments will be found under another heading. 



Cooperative Experiments Conducted in 1913. 



botanical department. 



Nature of activity. Cooperator. Location. 



Potato spraying experiments H. F. Keyes Rush. 



Cause of poor potato stands F. A. Sirrine Riverhead. 



Spraying currants for the control of cane 



blight and anthracnose J. R. Clarke & Son Milton. 



Dusting hops with sulphur for the con- 

 trol of powdery mildew W. P. King and F. X. King. Hartwick. 



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