EXPERIMENT STATION REPORTS. 



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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



To the President: 

 There have been issued in the year ending June 30, 1902, the following 



bulletins: 



One special bulletin has been issued in the meantime, making Number 

 16 in that series. It was entitled Aeration of Milk, and was written by C. 

 E. Marshall, the Bacteriologist of the Station. A brief resume of this 

 bulletin was published as Number 201 of the regular series, while in the 

 special bulletin was given the tables and details of the experiments on 

 which the conclusions set forth in the regular bulletin were based. 



I submit, herewith, copies of the bulletins, with the reports of the heads 

 of the various divisions. These reports, as below, give a complete and 

 accurate idea of the work of the Station during the year closing the first 

 of January, 1901. 



The time of the Agriculturist was devoted during the summer of 1901 

 very largely to work on sugar beets. That work was itself confined to 

 tests of different combinations of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, 

 with some work as to the distance apart of rows and other details of grow- 

 ing the crop. The bulletins mentioned above report that work in full, 

 and give evidence of the fact that it is carried as far as needed at the 

 present time. For 1902, therefore, we have planned a different line of 

 work for this new crop, continuing and enlarging the work with the 

 details of sowing and harvesting, as to distance apart of rows and 

 methods of doing the work. We have enlarged the line of investigations 

 as to methods of preventing fungus and insect diseases by spraying and 

 the application of certain kinds of fertilizers, the work being done in co- 

 operation with the Department of Agriculture. A second, and no less 

 important, series of experiments is aimed toward the production of beet 

 seed in this State. For this purpose some land was obtained of Marvin 

 Pickett, three miles east of the College, upon which seed of several varie- 

 ties furnished by the Department of Agriculture has been sown. The 

 plots are well fertilized, and the soil excellent in quality. The third 

 line of work is the testing of varieties. In this matter the program has 

 been changed. Heretofore, seed has been sent to the Station direct from 



