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155
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
DIRECTOR OF THE
KENTUCKY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIIVIENT STATION
For the Year 1923
The progress of the Experiment Station in its service to
the agriculture of the state has been satisfactory from the
standpoint of attack upon the pressing problems. lf, how-
ever, progress is viewed from the aspect of investigations
which should be initiated or more vigorously supported, then
its progress has been less satisfactory.
Appropriations to the Experiment Station have not been
increased for over a decade. Costs of material, equipment,
labor and salaries show a decided increase. 'l`herefore, the
problem of investigation, (rpg cially the initiation of new ex-
periments. no matter how lyatly needed, has become increas-
ingly difficult. _1
The Experiment Statihn has successfully developed and
introduced to thc farmers fof the Burley region a strain of Bur- _
ley tobacco resistant to what is commonly known as root-rot
(TIUIO/(It'l·(l busieola). Farmers have found this strain of to-
bacco superior to many of the local strains and it is now bc-
ing produced by a comparatively large proportion of the grow-
. ers in the Burley area. In connection with the tobacco work,
there has been discovered on a few farms a new and more de-
` . structive form of root-rot. `
The past year has witnessed an outbreak of tobacco dis- I
eases in western Kentucky. The leaf was largely affected by
l what is commonly called wildnre and by angular leaf-spot. It T