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of it. Probably it was a form of tip-burn although it appeared 
in some fields in which the plants surely were not suffering 
greatly from lack of water. Whatever the cause of the disease 
it was somewhat checked by spraying. In the ten-year experi- 
ment at Geneva and also in some of the farmers’ business ex- 
periments there was appreciably less of this trouble on the 
sprayed rows than on the unsprayed ones. 
Late blight, Phytophthora wfestans, made an early appearance 
in many fields in all parts of the State. M. H. Sayre, Water 
Mill, Long Island, is positive that he saw late blight in his field 
on June 22. ‘The first specimens actually seen by the writers 
were collected by Paul Roesel at Sagaponack, Long Island, 
July 11. On July 18 we visited Sagaponack, Bridgehampton 
and Southampton and saw several fields in which the late blight 
was already well established. In this region late blight usually 
appears earlier and is more destructive than in any other part 
of the State. Spraying is now well-nigh universal in this part 
of Long Island. Ina field at Baiting Hollow, on the north side 
of Long Island, late blight had already caused considerable 
damage by July 15. Some fields at Riverhead began to show 
the disease about this time. * 
Outside of Long Island the first: report of late blight came 
from Ontario County. F. A. Salisbury, Phelps, who: certainly 
knows late blight, states positively that he saw the disease in 
his garden on July 12. On July 24 we personally examined 
Mr. Salisbury’s garden and found late blight abundant; also in 
a neighboring field of late potatoes; but there was not yet any 
general outbreak of the disease in this part of the State. On 
_ July 30 we found late blight plentiful in a field of early potatoes 
at Montour Falls, Schuyler County. The first appearance of late 
blight in the ten-year experiment at Geneva was on August 4. 
Over the greater part of the State the latter half of August 
was dry and hot and the late blight was severely checked. Al- - 
though many fields were severely injured by late blight there 
was, on the whole, less damage than in any previous year during 
which these experiments have been conducted. Many fields were 
practically free from blight of all kinds. There was scarcely any 
loss from rot anywhere in the State, not even on Long Island 
where blight was severe and the ground wet at digging time. 
The flea beetle, Epitrix cucumeris, as usual gave some trouble to 
potatoes on Long Island early in the season and considerably 
_ more in the latter part of July. In various other places through- 
