88 Botany in the Extension Work. 



Farmers Held mecliiigs. — Under this heading- I have included all 

 meetings of farmers' associations aside from institutes and Horti- 

 cultural Meetings. A Farmers' Field Meet was held at Le Roy 

 under the auspices of a Farmers' Reading Club. Another meeting 

 of a similar nature was held at Jacksonville in connection with the 

 Farmers' Reading-course work in the Jacksonville Grange. A 

 lecture on the diseases of beans was given before the Byron Grange, 

 Byron, N. Y., and another before the Association of Farmers' Read- 

 ing Clubs at Batavia, N. Y. A talk was also given before the Busi- 

 ness Men's Club at Newark, N. Y. The work at these meetings 

 consisted of lantern slide lectures, talks and demonstrations with 

 the microscope. Two of them were all day meetings. 



Fairs. — • Plant disease exhibits were made at three of the fairs in 

 the State this year extending throughout the time that the fairs were 

 in session. The first was at the State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y. From 

 there the exhibit was taken to the Oneonta Fair, Oneonta, N. Y., and 

 was again set up at the Tompkins County Fair, Ithaca, N. Y. The 

 exhibit consisted of specimens of the cultivated plants of the State, 

 showing some of the more common diseases. Charts were prepared 

 showing photographs of these diseases, the nature of the organism 

 causing them and the results of treatment. Either myself or an 

 assistant was always present with the exhibit to answer questions, 

 explain the nature of these diseases and show with the microscope 

 the organism causing them. Directions for the treatment of some 

 of the diseases were passed out to those who cared to have them. 

 The name and address of the plant pathologist was also distributed 

 to a large number of persons who expressed a desire to write later 

 in the year for information on dififerent diseases. 



Co-operative experiments. — An outline of 6 co-operative experi- 

 ments was prepared and published and sent out by the College of 

 Agriculture for the year 1906. Detailed outlines for carrying on 

 these experiments were prepared and mailed to about twelve per- 

 sons. These were chiefly winter-course students. 



Correspondenee. — The correspondence during the past year in- 

 creased remarkably. During the previous year about 400 letters 

 were written by this Department in reply to inquiries of various 

 kinds along the lines of plant diseases. During the year just ended, 

 however, this number has more than doubled itself so that we have 

 written during the past year in the neighborhood of 1,000 letters. 

 The letters received were for the most part inquiries in regard to 

 diseases of difTerent sorts and often entailed an extended cxamina- 



