DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR 1914. 



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To the Honorable Board of Control of the New York Agricultural 



Experiment Station : 



Gentlemen. — I respectfully submit herewith the report of the 

 operations of this institution for the calendar year 1914, together 

 with a statement of our needs for maintenance and for additional 

 equipment. The past year has not been marked by any unusual 

 development in the work of the Station. The work of the various 

 departments has proceeded along the usual lines. Doubtless our 

 constituency has already learned that the development of knowledge 

 and of its application to practical affairs is accomplished with great 

 slowness if the conclusions reached are to be sound and calculated 

 to stand the test of experience. It is fair to say, however, that 

 the institution has made progress both in its equipment and in its 

 studies in matters important to agriculture. 



ADMINISTRATION. 



STATION STAFF. 



The usual number of changes have occurred in the Station Staff. 

 Mr. E. L. Baker, Associate Chemist, who had been with the institu- 

 tion since May 8, 1905, resigned in April to accept a commercial 

 position. This change was greatly to his financial advantage and 

 the situation could not reasonably be met by the institution. Mr. 

 Baker had had immediate charge for some time of the inspection of 

 fertilizers and feeding stuffs and had occupied that position with 

 satisfaction both to the institution and to the constituency which 

 he served. 



Mr. A. K. Burke, B.S., a graduate of the University of Maine, 

 who had had previous experience in experiment station work, 

 served the institution during a portion of 1913, and after an absence 



* Reprint of Bulletin No. 393, December, 1914. 



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