12 Director's RioroRT of the 



City wIk'1'0 louy,' (established and intensive agriculture had come 

 to have serious problems relating to fungoid and insect pests. 



It was thought best by those administering the afi'airs of the 

 Station at that time to establish a branch office at Jamaica, 

 L. I., as a center from which to work. This was probably a wise 

 arrangement under the conditions then prevailing. Since that 

 time the Station has become more fully organized into well 

 defined departments and it is now clearly good policy to so 

 rearrange the administration of our outside experimental work 

 as to bring the responsibility and details directly to the several 

 dei)artments of the Station. Moreover, there appears to be no 

 good reason for the extra expense attending a branch office 

 because of duplication of men and equipment. Acting in accord- 

 ance with these views your Board voted to discontinue the 

 branch office at Jamaica after June 30, 1902. It is definitely 

 understood that this action is in no way to affect the character 

 or extent of the experiments conducted in Eastern New York 

 unless it have the effect of enlargment and greater efficiency, 

 and any assertions to the contrary by the uninformed should be 

 discredited. 



INSPECTION WORK. 



The inspection of fertilizers, feeding stuffs, Babcock glassware 

 and insecticides has come to absorb a generous share of the 

 energy of the Station staff. 



The data collected for 1901 is briefly summarized in what 

 follows: 



Inspection of fertllkcrs. — During the year 1901, there were col- 

 lected for analysis 9G3 samples of commercial fertilizers, repre- 

 senting 456 different brands; of these 324 brands were complete 

 fertilizers. The average amounts of plant-food constituents 

 found and guaranteed are as follows: 



Giiarantoerl 

 Found 



In six cases, the nitrogen and phosphoric acid were more than 

 O.n jtcr ct. below guarantee; in 10 cases, the potash was more 

 than 0.5 per ct. below guarantee. 



