336 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



growing special wants of the station in the above-mentioned 

 direction, will prove ultimately the best economy. 



The scientific assistance has thus far been supplied, in a 

 great measure, by recent graduates of the college, at rates 

 insufficient to retain their services beyond a limited period 

 of time ; a circumstance detrimental to the successful accom- 

 plishment of scientific work of a more intricate character. 

 To give a somewhat more reasonable compensation for their 

 services would serve a twofold desirable purpose ; i. e. , 

 secure good work and prepare some graduates of our college 

 for teachers in the higher branches of scientific and industrial 

 education. It needs no additional arguments to show that 

 the kind, the character and the extent of the services which 

 this new institution shall render to the State, stand in a 

 direct relation to the character and the special scientific skill 

 of those charged with the work. 



The best use which can be made of the results of a well- 

 conducted experiment or analysis obtained in a public insti- 

 tution like the State Agricultural Experiment Station, con- 

 sists in placing them at once in the hands of those interested 

 in its work. To meet this end monthly bulletins, containing 

 short statements of the work accomplished, have been sent 

 out. The special calls for these publications increased rap- 

 idly from three hundred to two thousand. Want of means 

 necessitated the discontinuance of these bulletins since 

 November. There is at present no prospect of issuing 

 new bulletins for several months hence, on account of the 

 low state of finances. The work in barn and laboratories 

 continues from day to day, and the results are allowed to 

 accumulate without serving their principal purpose. 



The activity of the station has not infrequently, for this 

 reason, been exposed to an undeserved unfavorable criti- 

 cism. More facts of a similar character might be presented, 

 if needed, to justify the request to ask for better working 

 rooms, better apparatus and a more liberal appropriation of 

 money, to meet the united call of the working farmers of 

 the State. 



Other States, with less agricultural interests at stake, have 

 appropriated of late more than twice the sum for their exper- 



