44 Department of Plant Pathology. 



It is hoped that these cards will serve as reminders to the men who 

 take them that there is a place in the State where they can look for 

 assistance in controlling the diseases which give them trouble. That 

 this is an efficient means of increasing the correspondence is shown 

 by the fact that the cards are returned frequently throughout the 

 year accompanied by inquiries for information on certain diseases. 



Further, this sort of extension work is most effective since it 

 brings the department in personal contact with the man whom it is 

 its business to assist. To be able to talk the matter over with the 

 man, to get his point of view, and to see what the conditions are in 

 his particular case, are much more helpful in the final solution of 

 the problem than even the most extended correspondence can be 

 expected to be. The department should like as soon as sufficient 

 funds and assistants are at hand, to attend all of the important 

 county fairs in the State each year. 



Another kind of extension work that the department has been 

 doing is the attending of farmers' meetings of various kinds, par- 

 ticularly local Granges and farmers' clubs and societies. A consider- 

 able part of these meetings have been attended during the past sum- 

 mer, and talks and discussions given on plant-disease work. 



Additions to the Staff and Equipment. 



During the past year Mr. Donald Reddick, who last year began the 

 work on the black-rot of grapes, was made assistant in the depart- 

 ment. He has devoted the major part of his time to the investiga- 

 tion work on the black-rot of grapes, a report of which is included 

 above. A small part of his time during the latter part of the winter 

 was devoted to teaching advanced students. Mr. Reddick has been 

 made Instructor for the coming year, and will continue his work- 

 on the black-rot in the hope that it may be completed and be put in 

 bulletin form by the end of the year. 



During the Easter vacation, the changes and improvements in the 

 quarters of the department were finally completed, and although the 

 department had been occupying the rooms during the entire winter, 

 it was not until this time that it was finally able to organize its 

 equipment. The beginning course in Plant Pathology, through the 

 kindness of the Horticultural Department, had been given in one of 

 their laboratories. This work was transferred to the department's 

 own quarters at Easter vacation. During the summer, considerable 

 time has been devoted to putting the quarters into condition for the 

 work of the year. Much yet remains to be done. The equipment, 



