Qo NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
We deem it advisable, in this connection, to reproduce the 
records of the local weather bureau, kindly placed at our disposal 
by the authorities. 
Climatological data at Athens 1911 









| 
TEMPERATURES 
MONTH DAY | PRECPT. CHARACTER OF DAY 
| Max. Min. 
INovembers 5 o-iecies on sc 26 40 28 04 Cloudy 
27 47 28 aoe Clear 
28 | 56 36 4h Cloudy 
29 53 au) | Bes Cloudy 
30 38 2 Spears Clear 
Derembert. em. ec cen ews I 44 20 nee Clear 
| 2 AO 30 “A Cloudy 
3 40 26 one Cloudy 
4 34 18 av Clear 
5 28 12 Frere Cloudy 
or] 43 wie | Fae Clear 
7] A4 2r | Bee Clear 
8 41 As || ces Partly cloudy 
9° | 45 28 | Ab Cloudy 
0) 51 34 «OI MA Se Cloudy 
II 60 44 | Nese | Partly cloudy 
| 60 50 | rey Cloudy 
13 59 4o | ee Partly cloudy 
14 40 27 ae or che Cloudy 
15 39 33° | .38 | Cloudy 
| 16 40 S5eul .30 Cloudy 
17 43 38 .10 Clear 
18 40 | 30 Bet Partly cloudy 
Gy | spe | 26 As. Clear 
20 2 17 + Ne Clear 




Subsequently we learned of injuries very similar to the above in 
Dutchess county. The application of a miscible oil was made the 
last week in November and some twenty greening and northern 
spy trees, set ten or twelve years before, were dead by midsummer, 
and as many more showed evidence of more or less injury. The 
damage was confined, we are informed, to trees sprayed one 
afternoon when the sky was overcast. An examination of samples 
received from the affected trees showed conditions practically 
the same as those described above for the Athens orchards. The 
bark was variably cracked on a limb from a tree in a dying condi- 
tion and showed here and there well-marked dead areas with 
greener tissues on either side. There was the familiar enlarge- 
ment of the lenticels and an unhealthy, brownish condition of the 
inner bark. The samples were just being entered by the fruit tree 
bagks bectle- ME ccoptos aster  rapsmlos alka 
The above applications to fruit trees in Greene county were 
made with modern apparatus and, so far as we were able to ascer- 
