New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 179 
the Station pays the average, every-day, practical farmer indol- 
lars and cents. We would say, that in our opinion the Station 
does pay, and pay many, many times over, to the farmers of this 
State all that it has ever cost or will cost them. 
“Your committee can not give a report of all the experiments 
carried on at the Station, many of which it will take years to 
determine the value of. 
“ Your committee would report that all of the experiments are 
conducted in a practical, accurate and scientific manner, the 
results of which should be familiar to every member of this 
order through the Station bulletins published and distributed 
gratuitously. 
“ We would earnestly urge all members who are not receiving 
the bulletins to send their addresses to the Station and request 
the bulletins sent them. 
“One of the many experiments which especially attracted the 
attention of yourcommittee was the experiment in spraying pear 
trees for pear scab, and nursery stock for leaf blight, with Bor- 
deaux mixture. 
“We saw baskets of Seckel and White Doyenne pears from 
sprayed and unsprayed trees. The fruit from the sprayed trees 
was free from scab, fine, smooth and salable. The fruit from the 
unsprayed trees was very scabby, and hardly fit for market at 
any time. 
“The sprayed nursery stock looked vigorous, and had all of its 
leaves on, while the unsprayed stock was bare of leaves and had 
not made near the growth of the sprayed stock. 
“This experiment alone will be worth thousands of dollars to 
the fruit growers of the State if they will pay heed to it. 
“The farmers of this State now purchase commercial fertilizers 
to the amount of four millions of dollars annually, and you can 
readily see that information on this subject is of vast importance 
financially. 
“Your committee was impressed with the fact that no other line 
of Station work has resulted in such an actual and present saving 
of dollars and cents to the farmers of this State as the analysis 
of commercial fertilizers. [t enables the farmer to buy intelli- 
gently, and no manufacturers can long do business whose goods 
do not come up to his analysis when analyzed at the Station. In 
