CONTENTS. 



Part I. 



PAGE 



Officers and staff, ........... la 



Report of the director, .......... 3a 



Administration, .......... 3a 



Station staff, .......... 3a 



Maintenance, .......... 5a 



Special appropriations, ......... 6a 



Publication, .......... 7a 



Mailing lists, .......... 10a 



Essentials for needed development, . . . . . .11a 



Land needed, .......... 11a 



Buildings needed, ......... 13a 



Increases needed for annual support, ...... 14a 



Salary increases, ......... 15a 



General expenses and equipment, ...... 15a 



Summary, .......... 16o 



Work for private individuals, ....... 16a 



Commercial work, ......... 17o 



Control work, . . . . . . . . . . . 18a 



Investigations in progress, . . . . . . . . 21o 



The asparagus substation. Concord, ....... 23a 



The cranberry substation, Wareham, . . . . . . 25a 



Bog account, . . . . ._ . . . . . 27a 



Experimental account, ......... 28a 



Work of the year in the departments, ...... 29a 



Department of agricultural economics, ...... 29a 



Department of agriculture, ........ 30a 



Department of botany, ......... 32a 



Department of chemistry, ........ 34a 



Department of entomology, ........ 36 a_ 



Department of horticulture, ........ ooa 



Department of microbiology, ....... 38a 



Department of poultry husbandry, ...... 38a 



Department of veterinary science, ....... 39a 



Reports and bulletins, ......... 40a 



Report of the treasurer, .......... 41a 



United States appropriations, . . . . ... . . 41a 



State appropriations, ......... 42a 



Report of the department of agricultural economics, ..... 43a 



Report of the department of agriculture, ....... 45a 



Field A, or the nitrogen experiment, ....... 45a 



Field B, comparison of muriate and high-grade sulfate' of potash, . . 46a 



Field C, chemical fertilizers and manure for market-garden crops, . 47a 



Comparison of different phosphates, . . . . . . . 49a 



