DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR“ r904* 
Honorable Board of Control of the New York Agricultural Ea- 
periment Station: 
GmeNTLEMEN.—In accordance with the usual custom, I have the 
honor to submit herewith the annual report of the New York 
Agricultural Experiment Station for the year 1904. In the 
character and progress of the Station work the report is not 
unlike that of previous years. Certain efforts to whiclk the mem- 
bers of the Staff have given their time and energy have been pro- 
ductive of definite and unquestionably beneficial results, while in 
other directions the only report that can be made is that the 
problems which it is sought to solve are still being pursued. 
This is the usual course of scientific investigation. 
It is sometimes discouraging, and to the public is often dis- 
appointing, that so few of the unsolved problems that present 
themselves to the agricultural practitioner can at any one time 
be made the subject of investigation and that progress toward 
placing agricultural knowledge upon a surer and safe basis 
through scientific effort is necessarily slow. 
CHANGES IN THE STATION STAFF. 
Fortunately for the Station fewer changes have occurred in 
the Station staff than has been the case during some previous 
years. Mr. Vinton A. Clark, First Assistant Horticulturist, 
after two years of faithful and efficient service, resigned his 
position to accept a more prominent one in connection with the 
Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Arizona. 
This vacancy has been filled by the appointment of Mr. Nathaniel 
O. Booth, who occupied the position previous to the uppointment 
of Mr. Clark. 
Mr. Harold E. Hodgkiss, B. S., graduate of the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, has been appointed to the position of 
Assistant Entomologist. 
*A reprint of Bulletin No. 260. 
