14 Direcror’s Report OF THE 
In obedience to legislative action the work of inquiry into 
vineyard problems has been organized in Chautauqua County. 
Thirty acres of land near Fredonia on which are twenty acres of 
vineyard, have been leased for a period of years, and temporary 
facilities have been established in connection therewith for carry- 
ing on the necessary laboratory studies. 
The following persons have been employed in addition to the 
regular Station Staff.to carry on the necessary studies: 
Fred E. Gladwin, A. B., Special Agent. 
Donald Reddick, Ph. D., in plant pathology. 
Fred Z. Hartzell, M. A., in entomology. 
Cultural experiments to extend over a series of years have 
been begun in the leased vineyard, and studies of fungus and in- 
sect pests have been inaugurated. During the past summer 
records were secured of the past and present conditions existing 
in not less than 75 per et. of all the vineyards in the grape belt. 
It is expected that another season experiments and observations 
on fungus and insect pests will be considerably extended to those 
localities that offer good opportunities for such studies. 
THE RELATION OF THE STATION TO THE EXTENSION OF AGRICUL* 
TURAL KNOWLEDGE. 
There is now in progress a notable movement for the extension 
of knowledge among the agricultural people of the United States. 
This movement, which had its small beginnings more than a half 
century ago and has now developed to great magnitude, is taking 
several forms, the principal ones of a popular nature being 
farmers’ institutes, bulletins, reading courses and other literature 
issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, agricul- 
tural colleges and experiment stations, demonstration work on in- 
dividual farms, exhibits at fairs, addresses before agricultural 
bodies and personal advice to farmers by correspondence or visita- 
tion. In certain sections of the United States so called demon- 
stration farms have been established. At least twenty-five of the 
