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BY Report oF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
the total product of dry beans in the Onited States. If disease, 
therefore, eats away but a small percentage of this yield the 
aggregate loss to the State must be thousands of dollars annually. | 
The fact is that many bean fields are invaded by disease every 
year and the owners do not know it. Unless the loss is large 
they may not realize that the yield is less than it onght to be. 
Bean anthracnose is one disease which*%ofien vauses serious damage 
to the bean crop. It frequently is called “bean rust,” but bean 
rust is a different disease. During the past year the station has 
been investigating some of the bean diseases. It has found that 
the anthracnose may be largely prevented and bulletin 49 tells 
how and why. It is there stated that the disease is due to a para- 
site which lives over winter in the seed, and that the selection of 
good seed is very important. It tells how the disease may be 
recognized, and gives the formula for a fungicide which has been 
used with good results in treating bean anthracnose. 
EXTRACT FROM POSSIBILITIES IN FRUIT GROWING IN 
NEW YORK STATE. 
By 8S. D. WILLARD, Vice-President, Western New York Horticultural Society, 
“While considering the ‘ Possibilities in Fruit Growing’ we 
should not forget. the work being done directly in the interest of 
the fruit grower at our experiment station. 
“At no other place in the United States can there be found so 
large a line of varieties of fruits of every description, from the 
strawberry up to the apple, all being tested with special reference 
to hardiness, productiveness, ability to resist disease and quality 
and other essentials especially adapted to the wants of the com- 
mercial fruit grower or amateur. . 
“Are you desirous of knowing more of the habits and value of 
different varieties of strawberries? It will be strange, indeed, if — 
out of the 600 varieties you can there find in fruit, your curiosity — 
can not be satisfied. 
“Tf interested in the culture of the gooseberry, you can take your 
choice from 250 sorts; or, if time will admit, study the character- ss 

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