158 BOARD OF AGKICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXPERIMENTS AND 

 STATION WORK. 



[Read and accepted at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 12, 1909.] 



Your committee visited the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, at Amherst, on Oct. 29, 1908, and made 

 an inspection of the work being carried on by the station. 

 We feel, however, owing to the short time which we had to 

 devote to this visit, and our comparative unfamiliarity with 

 the work, that we cannot see our way clear to make any 

 recommendations, or extended comment, on the work of the 

 station. We were very much interested in the work shown 

 to us, and were especially impressed with the experiments 

 being carried on in orchard management and the growing 

 of clover, where low-grade sulphate of potash seems to have 

 demonstrated its value as a fertilizer for these uses. The 

 grass plots in general form an exceedingly interesting ex- 

 hibit and worthy of more extended investigation. We would 

 recommend that the committee for 1909, however it may 

 be composed, spend at least two days in investigating the 

 work of the station. 



It was manifest that the entomological department was 

 in great need of better and more extensive quarters, both 

 for its experiment working and for teaching and laboratory 

 work. We understand that the trustees of the college have 

 asked for an appropriation for the building of proper 

 accommodations for this department from the present Legis- 

 lature. We would recommend that this Board, through its 

 secretary and legislative committee, or such other officers 

 as it may appoint, urge upon the Legislature the necessity 

 for the making of a suitable appropriation for this purpose. 



The new greenhouses were under construction at the time 



