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work through a longer period before making any claims in regard 
to the matter. Sprayings were made for strawberry leaf blight 
with beneficial results, both in the use of Bordeaux mixture and 
ammoniacal solution, and it is probable that either of these 
remedies will be used to good advantage in the future. The use 
of fungicides in preventing gooseberry ey will be discussed 
in the body of this report. 
I would respectfully call attention to the fact that, at several of 
the fairs held in the western part of the State, this Station has © 
made an exhibit consisting of the constituents of ten different 
cattle foods, showing the relative value of each; an exhibit show- 
ing the chemical composition of the ash of fruit and wood of five 
of the more common fruits, namely, apple, pear, cherry, plum and 
grape ; twenty samples of materials used in making commercial 
fertilizers, and an exhibit of fruits affected by fungus and several 
of the most efficacious remedies used in preventing the growth of 
injurious fungi. These exhibits were shown in glass show bottles 
and were practical object lessons in their different lines. The 
Station also exhibited at the State fair, at Syracuse, forty-five 
varieties of apples, sixty varieties of grape, twenty varieties of 
pears, twelve of plums and fifty varieties of potatoes; also, an 
exhibit of fifty varieties of pasture, meadow and lawn grasses, and | 
charts showing the fertilizing value and pounds of fertilizers per 
ton of twenty-one different crops, and the proximate analysis of 
eleven cattle foods. 
This exhibit, as a whole, attracted a great deal of attention, and 
many words of commendation from the visitors at these various 
fairs. These several exhibits were accompanied by bulletins 
giving a description of each, and a large number of these bulletins 
were distributed to those interested in the lines of work exhibited. 
The value of attendance on fairs with these object lessons can not 
be overestimated, as it puts the work of the Station before a large 
number of those interested who find it impossible to visit the 
SMALL FRUvITS. 
Under the head of small fruits we class first the strawberry, 
next the raspberry, third the blackberry, fourth the currant and 
fifth the gooseberry. The grape will be considered in a future 

