REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



Nov. 1st, 1904. 



William D. Gibbs. 



Satisfactory progress has been made in the work of the 

 year just closing. Since the publication of the last annual 

 report, the following bulletins have been issued in editims 

 of 15,000 each and distributed free of charge : 



105. Fruit Growing, with a selected list of Varieties, for 



New Hampshire (illustrated), 24 pages. 



106. Forestry (illustrated), 20 pages. 



107. The Brown-Tail Moth in New Hampshire (illustra- 



ted), 16 pages. 



108. Inspection of Fertilizers, 1903, 12 pages. 



109. The Pernicious or San Jose Scale Insect in New 



Hampshire (illustrated), 12 pages. 



110. Experiments in Orchard Management in New 



England (illustrated), 24 pages. 



111. Ten Experiments with Potatoes and Potato Culture 



for New England (illustrated), 24 pages. 



112. Remedies for the Black Fly (illustrated), 8 pages. 



113. Experiments in Pig Feeding (illustrated), 8 pages. 



In addition to the above, 14 newspaper bulletins, contain- 

 ing summaries of regular bulletins, have been sent to agri- 

 cultural papers and to the press of the state. 



Large numbers of requests for bulletins have been 

 received from all parts of the United States as well as 

 from citizens of the state. The mailing lists have grown 

 to such an extent that it was found necessary to install a 

 mailing machine in order to get the bulletins out promptly. 



A department of Dairy Manufactures was added to the 

 Station Work during the year in charge of Instructor Ivan 

 C. Weld, who now has in press a bulletin on ''The Bab- 

 cock Test for Butter Fat," and another in preparation on 



