No. 4.] EXPERIMENT STATION. 251 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXPERIMENTS AND STA- 

 TION WORK. 



[Adopted at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 10, 1899.] 



A careful examination of the Hatch Experiment Station 

 cannot fail to convince any thoughtful person that a large 

 amount of labor, directed by intelligent thought, has been 

 expended in fitting up each department with apparatus 

 well adapted to the work which it is required to do. 



The farmer who has never visited an experiment station 

 or attempted to try an agricultural experiment can have but 

 little conception of the well-matured thought, careful, intel- 

 ligent action, and the expensive apparatus, necessary to 

 establish such new facts as will enable the farmers, in the 

 near future, to feed their plants and their animals better and 

 cheaper than they ever have in the past. That something 

 has already been done in this direction, some of the farmers 

 know ; but many of them do not seem to realize that in 

 every department work is being done that without doubt 

 will, in a few years, be a great help to every intelligent tiller 

 of the soil. 



In the department of entomology, a wonderful work has 

 been done in collecting and classifying the numerous insects 

 which injure, and those which benefit, the farmer. From 

 this department important information is sent out every 

 year that aids the farmer in his efforts to save his crops 

 from destruction by insects. As new destructive insects are 

 continually making their appearance, frequent applications 

 are made to this department by the farmers for information 

 that will aid them in their efforts to protect their crops. 

 Could we ascertain the value of the crops saved every year 

 by the use of the information sent out from this department, 

 it would, no doubt, exceed the cost of the plant and its 

 running expenses. Your committee believes that this de- 



