KEPOKT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



During the past year the work of the station has for the 

 most part followed the usual lines, hut an important change 

 in policy, as affecting college and station, should be noted. 

 Early last year it was voted by the Board of Trustees to sep- 

 arate the administrative duties of the presidency of the col- 

 lege and the directorship of the station, and a director was 

 elected. The station, it will be remembered, is a department 

 of the college, and the director, therefore, is responsible to 

 the president. He is made ex officio a member of the com- 

 mittee of the Board of Trustees on the experiment depart- 

 ment, without vote. Although this change, as stated, was 

 voted early last year, it did not become practically operative 

 until early in July, for up to that time the director-elect served 

 as acting president of the college as well as director, so that 

 his time and energies were divided. 



The Adams Act. 



The past year has been rendered notable in station history 

 by the passage of the Adams act, granting additional appro- 

 priations to all the agricultural experiment stations of the 

 country. This act takes its name from the late Hon. H. C. 

 Adams of Wisconsin, who labored long and earnestly to secure 

 its passage, and who perhaps in a very real sense gave his life 

 for the passage of the bill which bears his name. 



The Adams bill provided an appropriation by the national 

 government of $5,000 to each experiment station for the year 

 ended June 30, 1906. It provides for an increase of $2,000 

 in the amount appropriated for each station annually until 

 the total amount per year for each State reaches $15,000, at 

 which figure it is then to remain. This act will then, in brief, 



