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appointed July 1 to the position of graduate assistant in plant- 

 breeding-, but soon resigned to accept a position with the oiKcc 

 of farm management, and the former position has remained 

 vacant. 



Miss Grace E. Gallond has been appointed stenographer in 

 the department of agriculture and Mr. H. W. Angier has suv- 

 ceeded Mv. I\. W. Ilallovvell as observer in the meteorological 

 department. Just before the close of the year, Mr. II, D. 

 Goodale of the Carnegie Laboratory, at Cold Spring Harbor. 

 !N. Y., was appointed research biologist in poultry-husbandry, 

 to begin work on Eeb. 1, 1913. 



At the last session of the Legislature the annual appropria- 

 tion for the maintenance of the experiment station was in- 

 creased from $10,500 to $15,000, to become available at the 

 beginning of the new fiscal year, Dee. 1, 1913. The trustees 

 have assigned nearly the whole increase to the department of 

 poultry-husbandry, and Prof. John C. Graham has been ap- 

 pointed head of the department, without salary from the experi- 

 ment station. 



The growth of the experiment station has developed a need 

 of more land, and the trustees have deemed it the wiser policy 

 to meet these needs by leasing satisfactory tracts in the vicinity. 

 Two tracts have accordingly been leased, viz., a lot of twenty 

 acres from Mrs. Mary E. Tuxbury for orchard experiments, 

 and a tract of two acres from Mrs. Winifred Tripp for a 

 fertilizer experiment with basic slag phosphate. 



The work of the experiment station has continued without 

 interruption along the lines described in the last annual report, 

 and no new investigations have been undertaken ; but plans 

 have l)een adopted for experiments in breeding poultry with 

 the aid of the additional State funds. The details of the prog- 

 ress in the diiferent investigations will be found in succeeding 

 pages reported by the officers who have been respectively in- 

 trusted with them. 



The asparagus field at the Concord asparagus substation has 

 produced its fourth crop this year. Mr. C. W. Prescott, in 

 charge of the substation, reported an excellent yield amounting 

 to a gross weight of 11,141 pounds of shoots for the whole 

 area of two acres. 



