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more brief, and, since its work covers a much shorter period 

 and most of you have undoubtedly received its publications, 

 this will bj possible without leaving you uninformed upon 

 essential points. 



This experiment station was organized in 1888. The 

 general outline of its organization has been given, and a 

 statement that it derives its support from the United States 

 government has been made. It does not maintain a separate 

 establishment for chemical work. An arrangement with the 

 State experiment station, whereby the latter receives a share 

 of our income in consideration of performing our chemical 

 work, has been in force from the iirst. Aside from this and 

 the joint employment of a vegetable pathologist, the work 

 of the two stations is independently carried on. It is the 

 intention to make the work of each cover difterent ground. 



The president of the Agricultural College is the direc- 

 tor of the Hatch Station ; the professor of zoology is its 

 entomologist ; the professor of horticulture, its horticultur- 

 ist ; the professor of mathematics, its meteorologist ; and 

 the professor of agriculture, its agriculturist. Assistants 

 are employed in each of these departments. These are 

 generally recent graduates of the college in the depart- 

 ments of agriculture and horticulture ; undergraduates for 

 certain work in the entomological and meteorological depart- 

 ments ; and in addition young women in the entomological 

 department. Students of the college are also largely em- 

 ployed, especially in the horticultural and agricultural 

 departments, in the performance of such work as may safely 

 be entrusted to them, and very satisfactory workmen they 

 usually are. 



The work of the station covers a wide ground, and its 

 results are published in the form of ])ulletins, of which 

 u[) to the present time we have issued twenty-two, be- 

 sides the monthly Inilletins of the meteorological depart 

 ment. The attempt is made to make our investigations cover 

 topics in which the farmers and gardeners of the State appear 

 to be interested, as shown by the letters of inquiry which 

 are sent us ; and, in addition to rei)orts of experiments 

 carried out here, we have issued several bulletins giving 

 information upon matters of general interest to farmers. 



