inO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



I made a trip to Detroit in May to look up ihc matter of lawn grass 

 mixtures. A great deal of this seed is sold by grocers and hardware inci- 

 chants, prnetically none of wliom know that w(> have a seed law. All 

 i)f them are anxious to comply with the law and pr()mi)tly lal)ell('d what 

 seed they had on hand, when th(\y i-eceivcd th(> analysis. A good deal 

 of this ti'oul)le might be eliminated if the wholesaler would place th(> proper 

 label upon the packages. 



The Publicity Department of the College has been of great assistance in 

 obtaining publication of news items from the laboratory. 



Owing to the great increase in wages, cost of supplies, etc., the small 

 appropriation for the maintenance of the Seed Inspection work does not 

 suffice to employ sufficient additional help during the rush season, January 

 to March inclusive, to permit of having inspectors send in large numbers 

 of seed samples. Perhaps, therefore, it is fortunate, in a way, that the 

 money does not suffice to hire seed inspectors. It is doubly to be regretted 

 that the fees hitherto available for the work of the Seed Laboratory must 

 henceforward be turned in to the State Treasury. 



The time is now ripe it seems, for a revision of the present seed law to 

 conform with the ideas exhibited in the "Model Seed Law" recommended 

 jointly by the Association of American Seed Analysts and the American 

 Seed Trade Association after a study for several years in committee and 

 open meeting. Given such a law and funds sufficient to emploj- two or 

 more analysts and several inspectors, it would be possible to prevent the 

 fraudulent sale of most poor seed. 



B. A. HOLLISTER, 

 State Seed Analyst. 

 East Lansing, June 30, 1919. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY. 



President F. S. Kedzie, College. 



Dear Sir — I have the honor to submit the following report on the work 

 of the Department of Chemistry for the year ending June 30, 1919. 



The teaching stafT of the year was as follows: 



A. J. Clark, Professor. 

 H. S. Reed, Associate Professor. 



B. E. Hartsuch, Assistant Professor. 

 *D. T. Ewing, Assistant Professor. 



E. H. Doherty, Assistant Professor. 

 H. L. Publow, Instructor. 

 P. S. Brundage, Instruction. 

 E. F. Eldridgc, Instructor. 

 H. C. Lange, Instructor. 

 H. A. Iddles, Instructor. 

 R. H. Cromley, Instructor. 

 Harold R. Laing, S. A. T. C. Assistant. 

 Mabel Mosher (Winter Term only) 

 Associate Professor, R. C. Huston returned April 1st, for spring term. I 

 Instructor C. D. Ball, Jr., returned April 1st, for spring term. 

 Instructor B. E. L. French returned April 1st, for spring term. 

 The work of the year has been very unsatisfactory in some ways and 

 entirely satisfactory in others. The many interruptions during the fall 



• At Chicago University on leave of absence. 



