\... 1.1 EXPERIMENT STATION. 301 



RETORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXPERIMENTS AND STA- 

 TION WORK. 



[Head and accepted at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 8, 1002.] 



A hasty examination of the Experiment Station shows that 

 the professors have all that they can do in each department. 

 Every year our Legislature is increasing the work of the 

 station, and the time is near, if it has not already come, 

 when the heads of the several departments will be compelled 

 to confine their work to the Experiment Station. There 

 arc departments which would be very much improved if 

 the whole time of the professors was given to the work 

 of the station. 



The Experiment Station will never be what it ought to 

 be while its professors occupy two positions, — one as 

 teachers in the college, and the other as heads of depart- 

 ments in the Experiment Station. The work is not alike. 

 If a professor was called upon to speak to his class, he 

 might be thinking of some new method of changing the 

 earth so as to make the materials better adapted to plant 

 growth, or the mixing of some chemicals which would kill 

 an insect and save the tree, or perhaps he might be mixing 

 some compound that would cheapen the production of milk. 



The work which is now being given to some of the pro- 

 fessors is of a character that interferes with their work at 

 the station, and at the same time cannot be what it should 

 be at the college. This is a fact that must be evident to 

 every teacher who has had college work to do. 



Respectfully submitted, 



EDMUND HERSEY, 



Chairman. 



