REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL 



To the General Assemhly of the State of Connecticut : 



Gentlemen: — The Board of Control of The Connecticut 

 Agricultueal Experiment Station herewith submits to your 

 Honorable Body the Annual Reports of the Director and Treas- 

 urer made to this Board at its Annual Meeting held at the State 

 House, in Hartford, January 17, 1882. 



We beg leave to say that the work of the Station has gone on 

 through the year witnout interruption. Professor Johnson, as 

 Director, has been assisted the whole year by Dr. E. H. Jenkins 

 and Mr. C. A. Hutchinson, and by Dr. H. P. Armsby, for eight 

 months. Dr. Armsby left the Station September 1st, to take a 

 position in the Storrs Agricultural School. 



The Board of Control has held one meeting, and its Executive 

 Committee eight meetings in the year. 



The Sheffield Scientific School of Yale. College, which has fur- 

 nished accommodations free of expense, since the establishment 

 of the Station in 1877, gave notice at the end of the fourth year 

 of this arrangement that it would need its rooms for instruction 

 at the end of the five years named in its original offer, which 

 would be June 30, 1882. This necessitates that provision be 

 made for the future accommodation of the Station, and your 

 Honorable Body will be asked to make a special appropriation to 

 furnish a place and facilities for its work. 



The last Annual Report was bound and distributed as hereto- 

 fore with the Report of the Board of Agriculture. By special 

 resolution the Legislature called for 1250 extra copies, which 

 were distributed in advance of the regular edition. These extra 

 copies cost comparatively little (less than seven cents each), and 

 the demand for them has been greater than the supply, and the 

 Board suggests that your Honorable Body take similar action 

 this year and order 2000 copies for separate distribution. 



HOBART B. BIGELOW, 



President. 



WILLIAM H. BREWER, 



Secretary. 



