38 Ri:i'()RT OF Tin-. DlRIXTOR. 



In five years the fund accruiiiL;- to tlic State Colles^e of >\griculture 

 from the Federal government for experiment and investigation will 

 amount to $27,000 annually. This fund should be set aside sacredly 

 for research on fundamental questions. The making of '" tests " 

 and " trials," the publication of mere advice and information, do not 

 constitute research; these efforts belong to the extension work, 'i'he 

 Experiment Station should have its own distinct organization. Tlie 

 academic department can do the teaching ; the extension department 

 can handle the dady problems and perform the educational work 

 throughout the State ; the Experiment Station can devote itself 

 wholly to real investigation. 



The sum of $27,000 will not maintain a large experiment station ; 

 but the station can be thoroughly good as far as it goes. Either of 

 two policies may be pursued: (i) several assistants may be em- 

 ployed as subordinate officers to the regular college departments, but 

 devoting their time to the experiment station; or (2) a few mature 

 men capable of occupying full chairs or departments, may be secured. 

 I decidedly prefer the latter. At least half of the entire fund should 

 be set aside for maintenance and publication, allowing perhaps four 

 or five strong men to devote their lives to research. In the technical 

 subject-matter, these men may be associated with the corresponding 

 department in the college department. To one of these officers, I 

 hope to delegate the responsibility of looking after, assembling, co- 

 ordinating and publishing all research, experiment and demonstra- 

 tion work in the College, in whatever department it may be per- 

 formed. 



The investigational work is not now organized as an entity, 

 though several lines of research are in progress. Three bulletins 

 have been published so far from the federal funds within the fiscal 

 year as follows (and others are in preparation) : 



No. 232 — Experiments on tlie Inlluence of Fertilizers upon the Yield of 

 Timothy. 



233 — Two New Shade-tree Pests. 



234 — The Bronze Birch Borer. 



An experiment station is not only directly valuable of itself, but 

 it is essential to a modern college of agriculttu-e. The discovery of 

 kncnvledge affords. the exampU> and provides for the impetus that all 

 teaching needs. Research can not be dissociated from teaching of a 

 college and imi\-ersity grade. Only one of all the land-grant colleges 

 lacks an experiment station, although in two or three others the 



