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(1) The building, formerly a dwelling house, now occupied 
for administration purposes should be devoted to caring for un- 
married members of the Station Staff who now must procure 
their meals at a mile or mile and a half distance from the Station. 
Administrative quarters should, therefore, be provided elsewhere. 
(2) The Station is greatly in need of space in which to make 
an objective display of the results it has reached. 
(3) There is no place at the institution where even a small 
audience can be assembled excepting out of doors in pleasant 
weather. , 
For a fuller statement of the above considerations reference is 
made to the Station Reports for 1907 and 1908. 
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE INTEREST OF GRAPE GROWING IN CHAU- 
TAUQUA COUNTY. 
The Legislature of 1909, by special enactment, appropriated 
$10,000 for the purpose of inaugurating an extended study of the 
conditions attending grape growing in Chautauqua County. This 
action was taken without solicitation on the part of the Station 
authorities at the earnest request of a large body of grape growers. 
The reason assigned for this demand for help was that the vine- 
yards of western New York appeared to be suffering a marked 
drop in condition and productiveness, brought about undoubtedly 
by a combination of causes such as bad methods of culture, un- 
favorable moisture conditions and the serious ravages of fungus 
and insect pests. It was the belief of the grape growers them- 
selves that some underlying hidden influences were menacing the 
vineyards and that the industry which is the sole dependence of 
many of them was in danger of being destroyed, but in view of 
the satisfactory crop of 1909 such a view is hardly tenable. It 
is more rational to conclude that a combination of known causes 
which for a few years operated in unusual numbers and with 
unusual severity is the explanation of the decreased output of 
grapes. 
