EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



REPOKT OF THE UPPER PENINSULA EXPERIMENT STATION 



FOR THE YEAR 1900. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



I have the honor to submit herewith, the first report of the work accomplished 

 at the Upper Peninsula Experiment Station, to be printed as Xo. 186 of Experiment 

 Station bulletins. This report includes, first an introductory article giving the law 

 establishing the Station, and its history to date; second a report of the work done 

 at the Station, by Leo M. Geismar, the Superintendent: third, a report on the 

 geology and botany of the Station by C. F. Wheeler, the Station Botanist, and, 

 finally, a report as to the insect and animal life found in the vicinity of the Station 

 by R. ri. Pettit, the Entomologist of the Station. 



Yours respeetfullv. 



CLIXTOX -D. SMITH, 



Director. 



THE UPPER PENIXSULA EXPERIMEXT STATIOX. 



BY CLINTON D. SMITH, DIRECTOR. 



The State Legislature at its regular session, beginning January. 1S90, passed an 

 act appropriating $5,000 for the establishment and maintenance of an Experiment 

 Station in the Upper Peninsula. A copy of that act follows: 



The People of the State of Michigan enact: 



Section 1. That the members of the official board of the Agricultural College of 

 this State shall ex-offlcio constitute a board of locating and building commissioners 

 for the purpose of selecting a site and erecting the necessary buildings thereon 

 for a State Agricultural and Horticultural Experiment Station in the Upper Peninsula. 



Sec. 2. The said board of commissioners may receive by donation within six months 

 from and after the approval of this act in some portion of the Upper Peninsula 

 which seems to them most suitable for tlic above mentioned purpose a tract of land 

 containing not less than eighty acres. 



Sec. 3. That the deed for such site shall be duly executed to the people of this 

 State and delivered to the Auditor General. 



Sec. 4. If, after the selection of such site, it be fotind necessary, the said board 

 shall have power and it shall be their duty to procure and adopt plans, specifications 

 and estimates and to erect suitable buildings thereon and the said board shall carry 



