90 ANNUAL REPORT 



ered with sound and cautious judgment by every member in this 

 organization. The central station has been placed under the guid- 

 ance and direction of the board of regents, who have appointed 

 a director who has during the past year, put it into successful 

 operation. The school of agriculture has been successfully opened 

 and more applications of students for admission have been re- 

 ceived than can be comfortably accommodated. None are turned 

 away, but temporary provisions made for all. I understand 

 there are forty students in attendance, with more expected every 

 day. 



Our agricultural experiment station is now fully equipped in 

 buildings, instruments and men, for the work which it was de- 

 signed to accomplish, and every department is in successful op- 

 eration. 



The results of the work so far as completed, have been given 

 out in the quarterly bulletins, four of which have already been 

 issued, and the fifth will be ready for distribution at this meet- 

 ing to members of the Society. The annual report of the station 

 is now in press, and will be completed at an early day, or about 

 April 1st. 



At our last annual meeting there was some discussion in re- 

 gard to auxiliary stations to be established throughout the state, 

 but no definite plans were indorsed by us, or have been by the 

 board of regents; neither has the director been empowered to 

 put the suggestions which were made at our last meeting of the 

 Society, into practical operation. There were no objections to 

 the plan proposed, excepting the fact of having too much work 

 on hand for the year, pertaining to the organization of the cen- 

 tral station, to make it advisable to enlarge the field of opera- 

 tions; but I am more and more convinced tha.t such action will 

 be demanded at an early day, and it will be much better for the 

 university to inaugurate this measure than to have the matter 

 forced upon them by legislative enactment. But from the posi- 

 tion of your president, acting only as an advisory officer, under 

 the direction of the board of regents, we can do no more than 

 make suggestions and leave the responsibility to the ruling 

 power. 



I think we can aid this matter materially by emphasizing the 

 importance of this work, and asking for a decided expression of 

 opinion upon the part of the Society. 



I think it would be within the province of this Society to 

 make inquiry from the director of the state experimental sta- 



