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in demonstrating the results of our investigations. The men who 

 are conducting these field laboratories, living throughout the season 

 right in the community, become acquainted with the growers, and 

 tlie growers naturally become interested in their work and m the 

 results obtained. This year for the first time we held a general 

 meeting or institute at one of our field laboratories, where growers 

 could see for themselves the results of our work, and where the 

 matter could be carefully taken up and explained to them by those 

 in charge. It is hoped that another season we may be able to have 

 meetings of this sort in other of our field laboratories in the State. 

 We believe that this type of demonstration in direct connection 

 with the investigation work will be more effective and less expen- 

 sive than the type of co-operation contemplated by the work of the 

 Experimenters' League, at least so far as our department is con- 

 cerned. 



(c) Plant disease exhibits. — Another type of extension work 

 which has been continued from last season is that of exhibits, dem- 

 onstrations and discussions before associations of growers in differ- 

 ent parts of the State, and we have attended practically every large 

 fruit-growers' meeting in the State during the past year and many 

 of the country associations, besides a number of Grange meetings. 

 At fruit-growers' meetings, we have usually had an exhibit of the 

 more common and destructive diseases occurring in that section. 

 Three days were spent with the " Farm Special " last November, 

 We aho attended the Institute School at Alfred University last 

 spring. An exhibit and an address was made at the annual meeting 

 of the Ginseng-Growers' Association at Syracuse last April. The 

 most extensive single effort along this line has been the exhibit at 

 the State and county fairs. This year, owing to the large amount 

 of work to be done in getting ready for the teaching, only one 

 county fair was attended, namely, the Union Fair at Trumansburg, 

 N. Y. A special effort was made in connection with the State Fair. 

 Two exhibits from the Department of Plant Pathology were sent 

 there ; one, a technical exhibit of diseases of cultivated crops in 

 the Horticultural Building, occupying a space of more than forty 

 feet along the wall, with many charts and specimens showing the 

 results of the season's work in the different lines of investigation; 

 the other, an exhibit of an educational nature, occupied a space of 

 thirty feet in the State Institution Building, in connection with the 

 general exhibit of the State College of Agriculture. This exhibit 

 illustrated the general w'ork of the department along the different 



