REPORT OF THE ACTING DIRECTOR AND 



CHEMIST. 



To the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural 

 JExperiment Station. 



Gentlemen. — I submit herewith the fourteenth annual report 

 of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the year 

 ending December 1, 1895. 



By action of your Boai'd taken on June 7, 1895, I was requested 

 to perform the work of Acting Director for three months, and in 

 obedience to your later request I have continued to hold the 

 position subject to your further order. 



This report will be presented in the order of the following 

 subjects : 



I. Improvements and additions. 

 II. Outline of reports of different departments. 

 III. Bulletins published during the year. 

 lY. Tabulated summary of laboratory work. 



Y. Arrangement of chemical work. 

 YI. Addresses. 

 YII. Comparative profits derived from selling milk, butter and 

 cheese. 

 YIII. Comparative field test of commercial fertilizers used in 

 raising potatoes. 

 IX. Chemistry of plants, plant foods and soils. 

 X. Description of materials used as fertilizers. 

 XI. Purchase and use of fertilizers. 

 XII. Arithmetic of fertilizers. 

 XIII. Average composition and value of fertilizing materials and 



of farm crops. 

 XIY. The New York State fertilizer law and its meaning. 

 XY. Analysis of commercial fertilizers collected during the 

 spring of 1895. 



