NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. I 5 1 



than usual, and can be attributed to the wet weather at spray- 

 ing time rather than to any carelessness in mixing or apply- 

 ing the Bordeaux. Even half-strength Bordeaux during very 

 wet seasons is likely to produce similar injury. Bordeaux 

 mixture is undoubtedly our best fungicide, and about its 

 only drawback is its occasional injury to the foliage and fruit. 

 The lime and sulphur mixture that is now being tried may 

 have advantage over the Bordeaux mixture in this respect;, 

 and should it prove as cheap and as effective as the Bordeaux 

 this would be a big factor in its favor. 



As you are aware, the summer, and especially the late 

 fall, gave us dry spells somewhat similar in their effects to 

 the droughts of 1907 and 1908. There was, however, enough 

 rain during mid-summer to prevent serious injury to most 

 of the crops, and the fall drought because of its lateness was 

 not so serious to our crops as it was to our water supplies. 



Among the serious fungous troubles of the year, the 

 chestnut blight continued to attract attention over the state. 

 The northern boundaries of this trouble have been extended, 

 due either to the further spread of the trouble or to watchful- 

 ness of those on the lookout for it. Specimens have now been, 

 received from Bridgewater, Litchfield and Harwinton, and 

 an unverified report of its presence comes from Salisbury. 

 Specimens have also been received from as far north as 

 Boston. In the eastern part of the state winter injury to the 

 chestnuts, very similar to the blight, but without any signs of 

 the fungus, has been seen at Versailles and Storrs. The writ- 

 er holds that this fungus owes its vigorous development to 

 the unfavorable weather conditions for chestnuts (such as 

 winter injury and drought) that have prevailed during the 

 past several years. The past season, therefore, was not un- 

 favorable for its further development, especially in these lo- 

 calities where the trees suffered from the drought. On the 

 other hand, the trouble is reported as not quite so prominent 

 in Long Island and Stamford, this state, where the most se- 

 rious injury was produced in the past three years. 



