6 AGRICULTURAL 



EEPORT OF VICE-DIRECTOR. 



To Charles 8. MurMand, Acting Director: 



The reports of the different departments of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, which are included in the following pages^ 

 show the different lines of work pursued by them during the 

 year ending October 31, 1900. Ten bulletins have been issued 

 previous to this report, namely, — 



No. 69. Inspection of Fertilizers in 1899. By Fred W> 

 Morse. 



No. 70. Experiments with Muskmelons. By Frank Wm. 

 Rane. 



No. 71. Corn Culture. By Charles Wm. Burkett. 



No. 72. Insect Record for 1899. By Clarence M. Weed. 



No. 73. Experiments with Tomatoes and Potatoes. By 

 Frank Wm. Eane. 



No. 74. Growing Strawberries in New England. By 

 Frank Wm. Rane. 



No. 75. The Forest Tent Caterpillar. Second Report. By 

 Clarence M. Weed. 



No. 76. Utilizing the Greenhouse in Summer. By Frank 

 Wm. Rane. 



No. 77. Experiments in Road Surfacing. By Charles H. 

 Pettee. 



No. 78. Bovine Tuberculosis. By Herbert H. Lamson. 



No. 79. Twelfth Annual Report. 



Two assistants were added to the station staff by the appoint- 

 ment of Marion Imes, M. S., assistant in animal husbandry^, 

 July 1, and David B. Bartlett, B. S., assistant in biology, Sep- 

 tember 1. Roscoe H. Shaw, B. S., assistant chemist, resigned 

 September 15 to take a position in the University of Wisconsin^ 

 The department of chemistry has pursued essentially the 

 same lines of work reported last year. The results of sundry 



