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It was clearly demonstrated that bean anthracnose can be controlled 

 by selecting clean pods for seed. The injury from fire blight on 

 nurser}^ stock from large orchards was eii'ectively controlled by the 

 prompt removal of infectetl blossoms and twigs from the trees, 

 together with disinfection of the cuts. The test of lime-sulphur as 

 a summer spray showed clearly that this spray gave fruit entirely 

 free from injury and at the same time as free of scab as apples 

 sprayed with Bordeaux mixture. Arsenate of lead was used with 

 lime-sulphur with perfect safetj'^ to fruit and foliage and was just 

 as effective for the control of the codling moth as with Bordeaux 

 mixture. 



The individual records of the production of dilTerent cows in about 

 20 herds were collected, and studies made of sanitary and market 

 milk i)roblems, the operation of cream separators upon the com- 

 pleteness of skimming, the moisture content of butter, Camembert 

 cheese making, and the leucocyte content of milk from different cows. 



The poultry department worked on numerous projects with refer- 

 rcxice to breeding, feeding, incubation, and brooding. A vast dif- 

 ference in the hatching quality of eggs as due to the method of 

 keeping was observed. Eggs kept at 45 or 50° gave much better 

 results than those kept at a temperature of 70° or higher. It was 

 also learned that eggs lose fertility in hatching power rapidly unless 

 kept under favorable conditions after the third week. 



The department of animal husbandry continued experiments on 

 feeds for dairy cattle, and the conduct of the advanced registry for 

 dairy cattle based on actual production of butter fat. 



In connection with the extension work of the college a considerable 

 number of cooperative experiments are being conducted with farmers 

 throughout the State. The station cooperates with this Department 

 in the plant-disease survey work and the breeding of cereals. Xo 

 extension work is conducted by the experiment station staff other 

 than to give occasional lectures in state fair exhibitions. 



The publications received from this station during the year were 

 as follows: Bulletins 254, Drainage in New York; 255, Bean anthrac- 

 nose; 256, Street trees, their care and preservation; 257, Defects in 

 American Cheddar cheese; 258, The molting of fowls; 259, The 

 peony; 260, American varieties of beans; 261, Third report on the 

 influence of manures on the yield of timothy hay: 268, Necrosis of 

 the grapevine; 264, Experiments in the growth of clover on farms 

 where it once grew but now fails; 265, On certain seed-infesting 

 chalcis flies; 266, The l)lack rot of the grape and its control. Second 

 report: and 267, Fertilizer and seeding experiments with root crops; 

 Circulars 1. Testing the germination of seed corn; 2, Fungicides; 3, 

 Some essentials in cheese making: 4. Soil drainage and fertility; 5, 

 Suggestions from a survey of the trucking region of eastern Long 



