
Report or tHe Horricutrurist, ExperRimMENT Siation. 531 
He has obtained some very promising fruits as a result of crossing 
& strawberries in previous years and has continued the same work 
_ this year. He has contributed to the Station bulletins, as follows: 
~~ No. 41, Il. Spraying wire Funoicipes ror PREViNTION OF 
- Poratro Buieut. 
+ No. 44. Srrawserxtss. 
A more extended account of his work for this year will be 
found in his annual report. 
BEAN ANTHRACNOSE AND ITS TREATMENT. 
Popular Discussion. 
Prean anthracnose is a disease which sometimes causes very Seri- 
- ous loss to bean growers, whether market-gardeners, truck-farmers, 
or farmers, and in New York State, it frequently, if not usually, 
‘diminishes by a good percentage the profits of the crop. It has 
also been reported as prevalent in various other parts of America 
and in Europe. _ | 
Some New York farmers have attributed the loss of nearly their 
entire crop the past season to anthracnose, and this estimate was 
made after they were furnished with a sample of the disease as 
an it appears on the pods, in order that the report might be made 
be: as accurate as possible. Many, on the other hand, reported loss 
‘ ; _ yarying from five per cent. to twenty per cent. A smaller number 
4 gave estimates of loss varying from twenty-five per cent. to nearly 
100 per cent. and others reported no loss at all. 
Ag noted in the last report of the Diwector of this Station,* 
A : nearly one-half the dry beans produced in the United States are 
_ raised in New York State. Those counties in which the crop 
__ exceeded 20,000 bushels in 1880 are named below in order of the 
rank of their yield, Monroe county heading the list with a yield of 
293,563 bushels. California was the only State except New York 
: which exceeded the yield of this one county. The following is the 
list: Monroe, Orleans, Livingston, Genesee, Ee Niagara, 
“Wayne, Jefferson, Cliziton, Ontario. 
According to the 1890 census report of the acreage of beans$ 
m the seed farms of the country, New York State heads ae list 











2 Tenth Annual Report N. Y. Experiment Station, p. 23. § Except Lima beans, 
