h xpcpiii^ei^t illations, 1895, 



(Kepiirtr- iiiiule ut the Annual Meeting i:i December, l>«'.tj. > 



CENTRAL EXPERIMENT STATION, ST. ANTHONY 



PARK. 



PKOF. S. B. GREEX, SUPT. 



In presenting^ to j-ou my eig-hth annual report, permit me to first 

 call your attention to the work of the experiment stations of the 

 state horticultural society. Their work is increasing in usefulness 

 to the citizens of the state, and their reports are carefully examined 

 by horticulturists generally, and the central station finds in them 

 much valuable information. Their perinanenc}' not being assured, 

 they cannot do the best work. This difficulty is in a measure to be 

 overcome by the establishment by the state of two permanent sub- 

 stations, located in sections widely separated and representing 

 various characteristic geological and climatic features. These per- 

 manent stations will follow especially those lines of work which 

 from the long period of time necessary to get results from them 

 cannot properly- be undertaken by individual experimenters. My 

 idea is that these permanent stations are not to take the place of the 

 present work of our outlj'ing stations, but that by working with 

 them thej' shall make the whole experiment work of the state more 

 perfect and beneficial. The last legislature provided funds for 

 starting and ac(|uiring two new stations. One has been located at 

 Crookston on a piece of characteristic Red River Valley land; the 

 other has not yet been placed but is destined to go into the north- 

 eastern part of the state. 



The work of this experiment station and of the school of agricul- 

 ture has been very prosperous since my last report to you a year 

 ago. In this period there has been a larger attendance at the school 

 of agriculture than ever before. This attendance has been divided 

 as follows: regular course, school of agriculture 224 students; in 

 the dairy school, 7.t students; in the summer school for girls, 45 

 students; making the total enrollment for the [)ast year, r^44. Asia 

 well known, almost all these are from tlie rural sections of tliis 

 state. 



Greater progress has been made in the season just past than in 

 any previous year in adding to the efiuipment of this school and 

 of the experiment station. The last legislature made a generous 

 appropriation, which has resulted in the erection of the following 

 buildings— and in every case they are very complete in their 

 appointments: a "Dining Hall" has been built that contains a din in^f 



