Annual Report Of The Director For The Year

Author : F. H. Snow
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ISBN 13 : 9781332234783
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book Fifth Annual Report of the Director written by F. H. Snow and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the Director: For the Year, 1896 During the year 1895 both field and laboratory experiments have been conducted on a large scale for the purpose of solving doubtful points concerning the contagious diseases of the chinch-bug. Many thousands of farmers have been supplied with the Sporotrichum, or white-fungus infection. Their reports in reference to the success of the field operations have been of conflicting character as in former years, but the majority maintain that great benefit has been derived from the use of the infection. It has been thought desirable to devote this report chiefly to a detailed description of the laboratory and field investigations conducted under the supervision of the Director by his able staff of associates and assistants. Especial acknowledgments are due to Associate Professor W. C. Stevens and Assistant M.A. Barber, of the Department of Botany of the University of Kansas, and to Mr. F. E. Marcy, for their unremitting vigilance in laboratory and field and for their invaluable services in the preparation of this report. Attention is here called to the fact that the Sporotrichum or white fungus evidently survived the winter of 1894-'95 in the field over an extended area of the state, and artificial infection was therefore not so essential as in years when it did not survive the winter. Whether this widely-extended natural presence of Sporotrichum was the result of the general introduction of the infection throughout the state in 1894 from the laboratory of this Station, it would not be possible with certainty either to affirm or to deny. Attention is also called to the fact that the weather conditions of the past two years have been highly favorable to the undue multiplication of chinch-bugs and to their successful hibernation in immense numbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.