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istic of 450 varieties of apples, besides some 600 other varieties 
of pears, peaches, plums, cherries and other fruits. Such a field 
for observation can be found nowhere else, and deserves a degree 
of consideration from the hands of those interested in horticulture 
not yet given it. 
“As in ‘the line of our possibilities’ comes the question of how 
best to succeed in the fight as against insect life, fungus and plant 
diseases of every nature. 
“We reply: These subjects are receiving their full share of 
attention also at our experiment station, and in the near future 
the intelligent fruit grower of New York State, we believe, will 
find every difficulty of this kind easily overcome by carefully read- 
ing the bulletins and putting to a practical test such information 
as may be found in them.” 
REMARKS BY MR, F. E. DAWLEY, 
Secretary of New York Poultry ~ociety. 
Director Powell, Ladies and Gentlemen.—I wish to call the 
attention of our friends to the great practical value of the work 
which is being done at the Geneva station. The execution and 
enforcement of the fertilizer control law, as spoken of by the 
doctor is saving to the consumers of commercial fertilizers in 
this State thousands of dollars annually. It has driven all the 
goods that were being sold at a great advance over their actual 
value out of our markets, and to-day we can buy fertilizers with 
about as much assurance as we can sugar. Speaking of sugar 
reminds me that many careful and exhaustive experiments have 
been carried out at the station in this line also. Our citizens 
who have been growing sorghum have been cheered and encour- 
aged by the director, and the growing of sugar beets experi- 
mentally to learn in what sections they contain the most sac- 
- charine matter has been encouraged. I predict that at some day 
not far distant we will be consuming in this State fine granulated 
sugar grown upon our own lands. Some of the best growing 
experiments in my own county (Onondaga) have been very flat- 
tering, and I have learned within a few days that a great fac- 
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