

New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STaTION. 575 
These experiments in forcing vegetables for the winter 
market will alone well repay one interested in new departures 
in agriculture, to visit the Station and inspect the results which 
are being secured. Last winter between the 13th of December 
and the 26th of May, there was produced in the Station green- 
house, aggregating 148 feet in length by 20 feet wide, about 300 
pounds of mushrooms, about 1,000 English cucumbers, over 400 
pounds of tomatoes, about 120 dozen lettuce, over 100 dozen 
radishes, and 11,100 string beans. The mushrooms were grown 
under but a portion of the benches and produced at the rate*of 
over 60 pounds per 100 square feet of the bed surface. 
Many of these were actually sold at the following prices in the 
Geneva market: Mushrooms, $1 per pound; English cucumbers, 
£0 cents each; string beans, 40 cents per hundred; lettuce, 40 
cents per ch. radishes, 4 cents per bunch: tomatoes, 50 cents 
per - pound, i 
Station Work in the Second Judicial Department. 
The last Legislature appropriated $8,000, to be expended under 
the direction of this Station, in agricultural investigations and 
the dissemination of agricultural knowledge in the Second Judicial 
Department of New York State, including the counties of Orange 
and Dutchess, and the counties southward, excepting New York. 
This work has been placed under the general direction of the 
Horticulturist, subject to the approval of the Station Director. 
By special request of representative agriculturists of this sec- 
tion, the investigations‘undertaken the past season in accordance. 
with provisions of this law, have been concerned with the 
insect pests of truck crops, and the testing of various kinds of 
machines for applying insecticides and fungicides. Some of the 
results of this work are published in the following bulletins: 
Bulletin No. 74 is entitled “ Observations on the Application of 
Insecticides and Fungicides.” No. 75 is on “ Insects Injurious to 
_ Squash, Melons and Cucumber Vines; the Asparagus Beetle.” 
No. 83 is on “Late Cabbage Insects.” Other bulletins are in 
preparation. 
The most important discovery that has been made by the ento- 
mologists. incidental to their work, is the presence of the San 
Jose scale, not found before within the limits of New York State. 
Mr. Howard, Entomologist of the United States Department of 
