150 KKPOKT OK OKKICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



covcrv lli:it a ((msidcraltlc |);iil ol llif ii|)ciiiii;^" of cIutsc* is due to 

 j)("|)ti<- ili^^cslioii of tlic ]>ar:i( asciii salt , I lie pepsin hciiiji" introdiu'cd 

 ill the rennet ; the olalilisliment of the linie-sulphui'-salt wash as a 

 tlidroiieflily j)i"aeti(al and eflicient iiisectiei(h>. The station has inaajj^u- 

 rated a hir«iO aniouiit of new work with cheese and other dairy prod- 

 ucts, has })etifun to study the metabolism of phosphorus and sulphur 

 in the cow and hen, and is giving considera))Ie attention to the grow- 

 ing of seed with reference to vitality, and the shading of horticultural 

 plants, pai-ticularly strawberries. 



The coo[)erative work with farmers has included a test of forage and 

 soiling i-rops on Long Island; tests of spraying for ])()tato scab and 

 rot, raspbei-ry cane blight, and cauliflower and calibage black i-ot; 

 experiments in the use of grape stocks and apple stocks, shading 

 strawl)erries, growing chestnuts, storing apples, and the use of the 

 lime-sulphur-salt wash. The cheese-curing investigations in coopera- 

 tion with the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Department have 

 been continued, also the growing of sugar-beet seed with the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, sugar-beet investigations with the Bureau of Chem- 

 istr}^ and investigations of the San ,Iose scale and Asiatic lad3'V)ii-d 

 w^ith the Division of P^ntomology. In cooperation with the Vermont 

 Station, a study of soft rot of ca])bage and cauliflower has been under- 

 taken. The inspection work of the station with fertilizers, feeding 

 stulis, Paris green, insecticides, and Babcock-test glassware has been 

 continued. 



This station is doing work of a high scientific order and of great 

 practical usefulness. Not only is it conducting a large amount of 

 thoroughly scientific work which is likely to take 3'ears for comple- 

 tion, but it is also attacking many problems capable of immediate 

 solution, and is carrying the results of these investigations directly to 

 the farmer through its publications, its cooperative work, and the par- 

 ticipation of its officers in farmers' institute W'ork. Nearly all the 

 heads of departments take part in the farmers' institute work of the 

 State, and this 3' ear the station is to cooperate with Cornell Univer- 

 sity in giving a normal institute for institute workers. At this meet- 

 ing the regular institute workers of the State will assemble for two 

 weeks to receiv^e instruction bj^ means of lectures and otherwise on the 

 most prominent features of station work and on the best wa}' of pre- 

 senting the results of the station investigations to the people in the 

 institutes. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted at the New York State Station 

 during the past year were as follows: Chemistry — study of problems 

 in cheese ripening, of changes in milk, and of fertilizers and feeding 

 stuffs; bacteriology — study of problems in cheese ripening, tests of 

 methods for the repression of rusty spot in cheese; meteorology; fer- 



