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appealed greatly to the grower, and no doubt it has been influential in 

 locating new laboratories. At Milford and Waterville men were em- 

 ployed by the growers themselves solely to extend the knowledge of the 

 method of control of the hop mildew. 



3. Exhibits. — Exhibits of the common diseases of fruit, field, and 

 garden crops, and of the methods used in the control of diseases, were 

 made at the annual meetings of the Western New York Horticultural 

 Society and of the State Fruit Growers" Association, on the farm train 

 over the Delaware & Hudson Railroad from Binghamton to Peru, on the 

 farm train over the West Shore Railroad from Marlboro to Coxsackie, 

 at the State Fair at Syracuse, and at the Rochester Industrial Exposition. 

 An exhibit of the diseases of vegetables was presented at the meeting of 

 the Vegetable Growers' Association of America, held at Rochester, and 

 one of the diseases of ginseng at the meeting of the New York State 

 Ginseng Growers' Association held at the College. 



4. Lectures. — Lectures on some phase of the work on plant diseases 

 have been given by members of the statT at farmers' institutes, at meet- 

 ings of horticultural societies, before granges, improvement societies, 

 farmers' clubs, and other agricultural organizations. The demand 

 for lectures of this kind is increasing, and, while they are doubtless 

 entertaining and to an extent instructive, they cannot have the educational 

 value of demonstration meetings or of local teaching work. As far as 

 possible we have illustrated the talks with crayon drawings and with 

 specimens of diseased plants, endeavoring to make them more in the 

 nature of a lesson than of a lecture. In many cases meetings have been 

 held in the field or orchards, where practical demonstrations could be 

 made of methods of disease control. 



In all, 71 dilTerent localities, representing 32 counties of the State, 

 have been visited by members of this Department during the year 

 1911-1912. More than two hundred meetings have been held, in some 

 cases these meetings extending throughout the entire day. 



5. Correspondence. — The correspondence of the Department is large, 

 3.888 letters having been written this year in addition to a considerable 

 number of circular letters that were sent out. A large percentage of the 

 correspondence was in reply to inquiries regarding the control of plant 

 diseases. 



RECOMMENDATIONS 



The most urgent necessity for the Department continues to be floor 

 space. With greatly increased registration in all courses and with the 

 increasing demands for investigation laid upon us by the growers of the 

 State, we feel that provision for large additional floor space and facilities 



