14 Direcror’s REPORT OF THRE 
Complete Bulletins. 
‘Experiment stations and their staffg.................. 813 
Libraries; Screnrisis, tc...) so ska cane ee 265 
POPE gir LISUS |. ot kie ns coke, oe ong eet iel eee ee 210 
Individuals, cae en eG ce en ee ote « tae tase 1,550 
Miscellaneous 3... outs. sre. \s sasppus oe aiaie este sane iene eet 131 
ELAVERT PR ve tN ie hye ater ot shea Saint cate eae ane ae ee Rc 2,969 
WORK IN SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. 
The lines of work now in progress in the Second Judicial De- 
partment are as follows: 
(1) Potato spraying experiments. 
(2) Asparagus spraying experiments. 
(3) Investigation on the rots of cabbage and cauliflower. 
(4) Cane blight and other raspberry diseases. 
(5) Spraying for control of San José scale. 
(6) The growing cf chestnuts. 
(7) The commercial value of orchards of dwarfed apple trees. 
($8) A study of grape stocks. 
As results are reached in these various directions they will be 
published. 
Much of the other work done by the Station is as useful to 
the people of the region contiguous to New York city as to the 
farmers of those sections where the experiments are conducted. 
Mr. F. A. Sirrine, the special agent of the Station, is now 
located near Riverhead. 
INSPECTION WORK. 
This includes the same lines of inspection that are enumerated 
in my report for 1901. 
An outline of what has been accomplished in 1902 is as follows: 
Inspection of fertilizers.— For 1902 71 manufacturers licensed | 
548 brands of fertilizers. The Station’s collecting agents visited 
199 towns between April 2 and July 31, obtaining 924 samples 
of fertilizers, representing 446 brands. 
