New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 153 
immense storehouses of Wolcott began to be filled with barreled 
apples both from this section and also with large quantities 
which were shipped from the western part of the State. Early 
in the fall there was considerable alarm over a peculiar fungus 
which had attacked the apples, especially Greenings. Buyers 
were careful to avoid all these apples when placing them in stor- 
age, and supposed they had fruit of first-class keeping qualities. 
But now they find on opening their barreled fruit that it is 
decaying rapidly, although it is still early in the season. 
“ Wherever an apple shows the fungus spots they find a rotten 
Spot, and even on apples where there is apparently no fungus 
there are signs of decay. Dealers are very loath to buy any more 
barreled stock, and business is slow at $1.25 per barrel. 
“Many farmers who intended barreling their fruit are now 
preparing to send it to the evaporators, as evaporated apples 
are bringing good prices, and large quantities of coke have been 
stored by the evaporator men and there is very little loss because 
of the shortage of fuel.” 
Like all damage caused by fungus diseases, it is impossible to 
determine the extent of the loss or anywhere near it, but the 
experiences of the two parties referred to below may be taken as 
not uncommon, and will give some idea of how great and very 
unusual the trouble was. 
Mr. H. G. Udell, of Brockport, said to the writer: 
“ We shipped two cars of apples from Brockport to Farmer to 
be put into cold storage. While on the road there were a few 
warm days and upon examination, before going into the cold 
storage house, they were found to be so badly diseased that they 
had to be sold for evaporating purposes.” 
Mr. L. Huston, of Lockport, said: 
“T shipped a carload of Maiden Blush to St. Louis. The 
weather was warm and the apples were found to be ruined when 
they reached their destination.” 
INOCULATION EXPERIMENTS. 
The parasitism of the fungus on apple, pear, quince and grape 
has been demonstrated by artificial inoculations. In all the inoc- 
ulations the rot has always developed, while check fruits, kept 
under parallel conditions, always remained sound. 
