REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL. 



To the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut : 



Gentlemen : — The Board of Control of The Connecttcut 

 Agricultural Experiment Station herewith submits to your 

 Honorable Body the Annual Reports of the Director and of the 

 Treasurer, made to the Board at its Annual Meeting, held in 

 Hartford, January 15th, 1884, 



During the year the work of the Station has been carried on 

 at its new quarters, which were already occupied and nearly 

 ready for chemical work on the date of the previous annual 

 meeting of the Board. The chemical laboratory was ready a 

 few weeks later and has been in continuous use since. This use 

 has confirmed the expectations of the Board as to its special 

 adaptation to the work for which it was planned. The repairs 

 and improvements on the place went on, however, until mid- 

 summer. 



The Building Committee have still eleven hundred sixty-one 

 (1161) dollars of the special appropriation on hand. They report 

 that the visible needs of the Station exceed this small sum, and 

 they have therefore delayed expending it until the coming year, 

 by which time the experience of the Station will decide which of 

 the several needs are the most imperative, and how the balance 

 can be most advantageously used. 



The people of the State use the Station more and more each 

 year and the problem becomes moi-e difficult, how to best do 

 the varied work asked for: and to facilitate the administration 

 of the Station affairs in the new and enlarged quarters, the Board 

 of Control has appointed Dr. Jenkins Vice Director. 



THOMAS M. WALLER, 

 WM. H. BREWER, President. 



Secretary. 



