10 THE COTSTNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL 



Agricultural Societies in the State. These bulletins are all prompt- 

 ly printed in the CoxxiiCTiciXT Farmer, published weekly at Hart- 

 ford. Many of them are copied into the agricultural journals 

 of neighboring States. 



In my last Report the present resources of the Station were thus 

 described : 



" In its present organization the locality of the Connecticut 

 Agi'icultural Experiment Station consists of two apartments six- 

 teen by thirty feet, be ides an entrance hall, and a small closet, 

 all loaned for its use. One of these larger i-ooms is its chemical 

 laboratory, the other its office and writing room. Its property 

 consists of the mos; essential chemical apparatus needed for ana- 

 lytical work and the simplest office furniture and requisites. It 

 has no land and no place where any experiments on soils, plants 

 or animals, under agricultural conditions, can be set up or carried 

 out. The Station owns no books except its own manuscript re- 

 cords, a few copies of its printed Reports and a. few volumes of 

 ao^ricultural journa's and transactions leceived in way of exchange. 



" That the Staf on thus lives in borrowed lodgings, without 

 grounds or opportunities for agricultural experiments, is not the 

 plan or desire of the Board of Control, but has been necessitated 

 by the limited means at its disposal." 



When the Station was organized in 1877, the Governing Board 

 of the Sheffield Scientific School, as is known, offered apartments 

 for its accommodation for a term of five years free of rent. The 

 crowded condition of its Chemical Laboratory has obliged the 

 Sheffield School to notify the Experiment Station that these 

 rooms will be required for its own uses on and after July 1st, 

 1882. 



This not unforeseen contingency compels the Station to consider 

 where in jthe future it shall be located, and whether it shall re- 

 main, as it has been, a mere Chemical Laboratory, or shall be estab- 

 lished on a broader and more dppropriate basis, and be fairly 

 equipped for all the various kinds of experimental work that 

 properly belong to an Agricultural Experiment Station. 



The wants of the Station.— ys^h^ii I submitted last year in ref- 

 erence to the wants of the Station at that time, applies with 

 greater emphasis at this juncture and I can therefore scarcely 

 omit to repeat from the Report for 1880 the following paragraphs : 



" In its present shape the Station is quite strictly confined to 

 those investigations which can be made in the chemical labora- 



