212 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



ON THE WORK CARRIED ON AT THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION DUR- 

 ING 1892. 



BY DR. C. A. GOESSMANN, DIRECTOR. 



Mr. Chairman, Members of the State Board of Ag- 

 riculture, Ladies and Gentlemen : — I am instructed ])y 

 Secretary Wui. R. Sessions to speak to you of the work 

 carried on at the Massachusetts State Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station during the present year, 1892, and it gives me 

 pleasure to comply with his request. 



The State Agricultural Experiment Station was estal)lished 

 by an act of the State Legislature in 1882 ; the Board of 

 Control, to whom the supervision of the station was assigned, 

 met during the autumn of the same year, and made provi- 

 sions to begin actual work upon the grounds of the station 

 April 1, 1883. 



The work since carried on at the station, with the consent 

 of the Board of Control, is published in accordance with our 

 State laws regarding this matter in the form of periodical 

 bulletins and annual 'reports. Forty-five bulletins and 

 nine annual reports have thus for been published for general 

 distribution, free of charge to all parties interested. The 

 number of copies of annual reports published of late amounts 

 to twenty-five thousand, of which fifteen thousand are sent 

 out in connection with the* annual reports of the secretary 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, and ten thousand by the 

 director of the station, on application. The number of bul- 

 letins annually issued varies from four to five. Each bulletin 

 has an edition of ten to eleven thousand copies. Aside from 

 these publications are also issued monthly circulars, con- 

 taining the official analyses of commercial fertilizers. Four 

 or five circulars of seven thousand copies each are issued 

 during the year. 



