204 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



I feel much encouraged over the past year's results. For the first time 

 since before the war we have enjoyed a year of uninterrupted, full-time, 

 contented and productive effort to further the departmental progi'am. A 

 problem of great importance to us all is the development of research at this 

 College and the relationship in the future of investigations in the Experi- 

 ment Station to the investigative spirit and poUcy of the institution as a 

 whole. The Di\asion of Bacteriology is pleased and heartened by the evi- 

 dent purpose of President Friday to direct the solution of these problems in a 

 spirit of modern, enhghtened, educational statesmanship. We are grateful 

 to you for your unceasing and increasing sympathy toward and support of 

 our work. 



Respectfully, 



WARD GILTNER, 



Bacteriologist. 

 East Lansinjj^, ]\richigan, June 30, 1922. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



Dean R. S. Shaw, 



Michigan Agricultural College. 

 Dear Dean Shaw: 



The work of the Botanical Section of the Experiment Station has been 

 carried on tliis past year in the main with the same projects as in the 

 preceding year. 



The staff in charge of the different lines of work differed from that of 

 the preceding year as follows: Dr. R. P. Hibbard was on leave of absence 

 from September 1st to June 30th while occu])ying a fellowship at Johns 

 Hopkins University. The Johnston fellowship, which was given Dr. Hib- 

 bard, is one that is offered only to men who are outstanding in their pro- 

 fession and is in reality an invitation to co-operate with Johns Hopkins 

 University on given lines of research. Mr. C. W. Bennett was appointed 

 part time research assistant in plant pathology beginning April 1st. be- 

 ing assigned to fruit disease investigations. By the terms of their ap- 

 pointment, Mr. Bennett becomes full-time research assistant beginning 

 July 1st. 



My personal work has been, so far as the Experiment Station is con- 

 cerned, mainly of supervisory and advisory nature. I carried on some 

 investigations, not yet completed, on the orange rust of raspberries and 

 blackberries. The main results of the investigations in Plant Pathology 

 are contained in the accompanying report by Dr. G. H. Coons, and in 

 Plant Physiology in the accompanying report by Dr. R. P. Hibbard, both 

 of which 1 wish incorporated as part of my report. 



Respectfullv, 



E. A. BESSEY, 

 Professor of Botany, Botanist of the Experiment Station. 



