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culture and inoculation experiments to be contagious, but so 
far, neither in the field nor in the laboratory have any repro- 
ductive bodies, or spores, made their appearance. It is to be 
hoped that during the coming season the affected locality may be 
more definitely bounded, and the means by which the parasite is 
transmitted from place to place be certainly ascertained. At pre- 
sent the disease seems to be confined to the eastern portion of the 
State along the Hudson river. 
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OUTLINE oF WoRK PROPOSED FoR 1892, 
It is designed the coming season to continue the treatment of 
nursery stock already planted in accordance with the plans 
already laid out, and, if possible, to bring to completion the com- 
parative test of the two principal fungicides as preventives of the 
several leaf-blights and powdery mildews. In addition, 100 
plats have been planted with pear seed, upon which will 
be tested, through the co-operation of the horticulturist of the 
Station, twenty-five substances, with a view of ascertaining their 
efficiency in preventing the destructive pear leaf-blight the first and 
second seasons of growth. 
Wasuineron, D. C., April 23, 1892. | 
A brief summary of the work of the several members of the 
staff is presented in the report of the executive committee of the 
board of control, and I would refer to the several reports included 
in this volume for the details of this work which I am sure will 
commend itself as being well conceived and thoroughly executed 
as also of practical and scientific value. Certain portions of the 
work performed under the personal supervision of the first assist- 
ant in the investigation with poultry; of the chemist in the inyes- 
tigations relating to manufacture of butter and cheese ; of the act- 
ing horticulturist upon the action of fungicides and other features 
of the work of the Station which it seemed desirable should be 
placed at once in the possession of the people, have been already 
partially presented in the published bulletins of the Station. 
I desire to acknowledge the uniform faithfulness. and zeal with 
which the multifarious labors of the Station have been performed 
by the several employes of the Station in whatever work has been 
assigned them, since to them largely is the credit due that so much 
thas been accomplished. 
