EXPERIMENT STATION REPORTS. 



77 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



To the President : 



During- the year ending June 30, 1903, there have been issued by the 

 Experiment station the following bulletins : 



The mailing list of the station has grown rapidly until at the date of 

 this report it includes the names of nearly forty thousand readers. The 

 list is revised frequently to prevent the accumulation of names of people 

 who, by reason of removal or otherwise, no longer care for our publica- 

 tions. 



The size of this mailing list makes the. cost of publication of the reg^ 

 ular bulletins a strain upon the resources of the college. For this reason 

 it is the present policy to print as special bulletins those articles which 

 are interesting and valuable to certain sections of the State onl}'. A 

 resume of such articles appears in the regular bulletins, but the details 

 are printed in the special bulletins alone. Again as the work of the sta- 

 tion becomes more technical, it folloAvs that the relative number of the 

 special bulletins will increase. We welcome all farmers to our list of 

 readers and shall try to furnish each one. of them with the bulletins 

 he desires. 



The well established policy of the station has been followed as to the 

 kind of matter to go into the station bulletins. The pages have been 

 reserved for reports of results of experiments of observations made and 

 have not been given up to matters purely educational. It is recognized as 

 the limited sphere of the station publication thus to report work per- 

 formed and to leave to the agricultural press the dissemination of infor- 

 mation not immediately related to the experiments. 



The bulletins are printed by the college without charge to the regular 

 station funds. 



It is my sad duty to record here the simple fact of the death of the 

 man who has been from its inception, the chemist of the station. This 

 is not the time nor place to review his work in detail nor to write an 

 eulogy upon his personality. I must leave that duty to others. I cannot 



