No. 4.] 



COLLEGE AND STATION. 



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The reorganized station is divided into seven distinct de- 

 partments. The division of botany has been restored, after 

 temporary suspension ; the chemical work has been divided ; 

 and a new division, foods and feeding, has been established. 

 The several divisions are as follows : — 



Director, 



President H. H. Goodell, LL.D. 



Departments : — 

 Agriculture, ..... 

 Horticulture, ..... 

 Botauy, ..... 



Chemistry (fertilizers and fertilizing 



material), . . . . . 



Foods and Feeding (cattle feeds, 



water, dairy products and animal 



nutrition) , . 

 Entomology, ..... 

 Meteorology, ..... 



Prof. W. P. Brooks. 

 Prof. S. T. Maynard. 

 Prof. G. E. Stone. 



Prof. C. A. Goessmann. 



Prof. J. B. LlNDSEY. 



Prof. C. H. Ferxald. 

 Prof. Leonard Metcalf. 



I ask your attention to a brief outline of the work under- 

 taken by the reorganized station. 



Agriculture. 



Experiments in plant nutrition will be continued, to note 

 the special food requirements of various plants, as well as 

 the different abilities which they possess to utilize the plant 

 food of the soil. 



Variety tests will be carried on, especially with fodder 

 and grain crops, with a view of improving, by selection, 

 their yield and quality. 



The experiments in poultry, now under way, will be con- 

 tinued, in order to note the effect of various feed combina- 

 tions on egg production. 



Cultural experiments, such as depth of ploughing, sub- 

 soiling and methods of planting, will be conducted. 



It is hoped, if time and money permit, to make tests of 

 the comparative efficiency of different makes of agricultural 

 machinery. A dynamometer will be employed, to note the 

 amount of force necessary to draw different implements. 



The agricultural department will co-operate with the chem- 



