154 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



This station has confined its investigations to lines of work closely 

 connected with a few of the leading industries of the State. These 

 are dairying, including cheese making; fruit raising, especially grapes; 

 poultry raising; and plant production, including both field crops and 

 garden vegetables, with closely related investigations on insects and 

 diseases affecting fruits and plants. The work is well planned and 

 carefully carried out and much of it is productive of valuable results. 

 Farmers' institute work by station officers has been continued upon a 

 satisfactory basis, which disseminates information regarding the work 

 of the station throughout the State, and yet does not interfere mate- 

 rially with the regular work of inspection and investigation. 



Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca. 

 Department of Cornell University. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Trustees — Station Council: Jacob G. Schurman (Pres.); Isaac P. Roberts, 

 Franklin C. Cornell, John H. Comstock, Liberty H. Bailey, Emmons L. Williams. 



STATION STAFF. 



Jacob G. Schurman, B. A., D. Sc, LL. D., President of the University. 



Isaac P. Roberts, M. Agr., IHr.; Agr. George W. Cavanaugh, B. S., Asst. Chem. 



George C. Caldwell, B. S., Ph. D., Chem. Clayton 0. Smith, B. S., Asst. in Crypto- 



James Law, F. R. C. V. S., Vet. o gamic Bot. 



John H. Comstock, B. S., Ent. 0. F. Hunziker, B. S. A., M. S. A., Dairy 



Liberty H. Bailey, M. S., Hort. Bad. 



Henry H. Wing, B. Agr., M. S., Dairy John Craig, B. S., Extension Work in Agr. 



Husb. and Animal Indus. and Hort. 



G. F. Atkinson, M. S., Cryptogamic Bot. Jas. A. Foord,B. S. A., Asst. in Dairy Husb. 



Mark V. Slingerland, B. S., Asst. Ent. Chas. E. Hunn, Gardener. 



Louis A. Clinton, B. S., Asst. Agr. E. L. Williams, Treas. 



J. L. Stone, B. S. A., Asst. in Agr. E. A. Butler, Clerk. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the New York Cornell Station during the past year has 

 followed practically the same lines as in previous years, including 

 variety experiments with wheat and sugar beets; comparisons of dif- 

 ferent legumes as soil renovators; experiments with commercial fer- 

 tilizers on pastures; tillage and spraying experiments with potatoes; 

 fertilizer and variety tests of buckwheat; tests of various plants as 

 forage crops; plat experiments with grasses; feeding experiments with 

 steers, pigs, and dairy cows; dairy investigations, including cheese 

 making; breeding and feeding experiments with poultry; studies of 

 the higher fungi, especially those of use as food plants; investigations 

 of the fungus diseases causing decay of forest trees and shade trees; 



