STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. lOQ 



these two fungicides been changed and I beheve I am just 

 in attributing this in no small degree to the results we had 

 shown at the summer meeting of the State Fruit Growers in 

 our experimental plats at Sodus, N. Y. (iQio). Over 1500 

 growers saw these results. With this evidence many of you 

 are doubtless familiar from our publications on the subject. 

 Lime-sulphur continues to be practically the only summer 

 fungicide used by our growers for their apples. In fact bor- 

 deaux as a spray mixture for most fruit diseases has largely 

 gone out of use. 



In 1910 the apple scab appeared in epidemic form through- 

 out the Genessee Valley just before the blossoms opened, with 

 the result that the set, of fruit was almost completely destroyed. 

 The farmers of Genessee County, while not primarily apple 

 growers, expect considerable returns from their small farm 

 orchards. Aroused to interest in their orchards by the growing 

 incomes of their apple growing neighbors to the north and 

 filled with exceptional anticipation by the heavy blossom of 

 1910, they saw with chagrin the failure of their fruit to set 

 and called upon the college for information and assistance to 

 prevent a repetition of such a catastrophe in the future. At a 

 meeting of Genessee farmers in the summer of iqio we pro- 

 posed the organization of a local fruit growers' association 

 and the establishment by them of an industrial fellowship to 

 provide for one or more field laboratories and the location of 

 a young plant doctor or entomologist in each. Two organiza- 

 tions were effected, which were afterward merged into one, 

 and three young men (two plant pathologists and one ento- 

 mologist) were stationed in the county the next season to ad- 

 vise with the growers, direct their spraying operations and 

 conduct experiments on the control of diseases and pests of 

 their fruit. 



So satisfactory was the arrangement that at the end of the 

 first year the growers united in an incorporated county asso- 

 ciation and the second year not only maintained their three 

 experts but also through the association purchased their spray 

 materials at a marked reduction and marketed over fifty thou- 

 sand barrels of choice fruit. Their industrial fellowships are 

 largely responsible for having put Genessee County within two 

 years on the fruit map of New York State. 



