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new facts of importance. In the Hudson Valley survey it was 

 discovered that the currant cane blight so destructive in the 

 Hudson Valley is entirely different from the currant cane blight 

 occurring in the western part of the State. In the same survey 

 there was gathered considerable evidence to show that a destruc- 

 tive cane blight of the raspberry, often attributed to drought or 

 winter injury, is in reality due to the attacks of a parasitic fun- 

 gus; and the observations made in the survey of 1900 prove this 

 beyond all doubt. 



THE SURVEY: METHODS AND GENERAL RESULTS. 



TERRITORY COVERED BY THE SURVEY. 



The territory covered by the survey includes all that part of 

 New York State lying west of a north and south line drawn 

 through Lake Cayuga; namely, the Counties of Wayne, Seneca, 

 Schuyler, Chemung, Monroe, Ontario, Y^ates, Steuben, Orleans, 

 Genesee, Livingston, Wyoming, Allegany, Niagara, Erie, Cat- 

 taraugus and Chautauqua. (See Plate XXH.) 



WEATHER CONDITIONS. 



In Western New Y'ork the season of 1900 was excessivelv drv 



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and the effects of the drought were the more prominent because 

 the preceding season had also been an unusually dry one. The 

 monthly precipitation for the season of 1900 is shown in the 

 accompanying table: 



Peecipitatio:? in Western New York — April to Septembee, 1900. 



station. April. 



In. 



Romulus 59 



Penn Yan 1.25 



Lyons 1.19 



^Yilliamson 1 .43 



Rochester 1 . G8 



Scottsville 1.G2 



Brockport 1 . 78 



Buffalo 1.13 



Westfield 64 



Avon 1 . 10 



Akron 1.02 



Atlanta 2.08 



