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spraying experiments; investigations of diseases of plants, including 

 crown blight, root rot, and a disease of hops; studies in cooperation 

 with the botanist at the Geneva Station on the sterile fungus Rhizoc- 

 tonia as a cause of plant diseases in the State; chemical studies of soils, 

 fertilizers, beets and their by-products in beet-sugar manufacture, 

 ashes, butter colors, insecticides, and feeding stuffs; investigations on 

 the life history of the palmer worm, peach borer, greenhouse leaf 

 tier, strawberry pests, a grape pest new to the State, and a new bene- 

 ficial insect, the common European praying mantis; and horticultural 

 work, including studies of Japanese plums, the forcing of strawber- 

 ries, tree fruits, and mushrooms, and investigations of methods of 

 spraying. 



The station continues to carry on an extensive system of cooperative 

 experiments throughout the State with the aid of State funds. These 

 experiments for the last year have been along six principal lines — 

 renovation of apple orchards, trial of orchard cover crops, spraying of 

 fruit trees when in blossom, culture of cabbage, garden beans, and 

 muskmelons in western New York. The experience of five years in 

 this work has demonstrated, among other things, that the apple 

 orchard in New York State, when well cared for, is valuable property; 

 that cover crops are effectual in maintaining orchard fertility, and 

 that it is not wise to spray fruit trees during the blossoming period. 

 During the year the horticulturist has published a book on the Prin- 

 ciples of Vegetable Gardening and three volumes of his Cyclopedia of 

 American Horticulture. 



INCOME. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows: 



United States appropriation $13, 500. 00 



State appropriation a 12, 131. 69 



Farm products, including balance from previous year 397. 87 



Total 26,029.56 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States fund 

 has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed by- this 

 Department, and has been approved. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of this station received during the past fiscal 3 r ear 

 were Bulletins 183-192 and the Annual Report for 1900. 



Bulletin 183, pp. 16, dgms. ( B. — Sugar-beet Pulp as a Food for 

 Cows. — A description and an analysis of sugar-beet pulp and the 

 results of two feeding experiments with 11 cows. 



a This is approximately the amount spent for experimental purposes out of an 

 appropriation of $35,000 by the State for cooperative experiments and university 

 extension work in agriculture. 



