16 EXPERLMEXT STATION. [Jan. 



vided nozzles and Skinner unions and loaned the station a Skin- 

 ner drillino' machine. 



The small piece of npland referred to in the last report as 

 desirahle in order to give better access to onr building has been 

 jnirchased during tlie year. 



The Crop of 1011. 



Tlie yield of frnit on the station l)oi2,' dnrinc; the past year was 

 in round numbers 850 barrels of berries. These were sold for 

 the sum of $4-,088.33. The ordinary running- expenses for the 

 season amounted to $1,817.08. The bog, therefore, yielded a 

 net income over and above ordinary running expenses of $3,- 

 171.2.5. 



The crop of the season was probably l^etter than the average 

 crop will be, and it sokl for good prices. We can hardly antici- 

 pate so large a net income annually, but there would seem to 

 be no question that the product of the bog will be sufficiently 

 large to furnish a considerable share of the funds that will be 

 needed for i:)aying the costs of experimental work. 



Principal Li7ies of Cranberry Worh. 

 Three principal lines of investigation with cranberries are in 

 progress. These relate respectively to the fertilizer require- 

 ments of the crop, the relations of insects to the cranberry indus- 

 try, and the study of injurious fungi. 



Fertilizer Expert men ts. 



The fertilizer experiments in Red Brook bog at Waquoit have 

 again given indecisive results. These experiments will be dis- 

 continued. We have found it exceedingly difficult to care for 

 them properly on account of their distance from our center of 

 o])erations, and we are convinced, moreover, that certain natural 

 inequalities in the character of the bog soil in the different i)lots 

 must always considerably reduce the value of the results ol)- 

 tained. 



During the past season a new series of ])lots has be(Mi laid out 

 in the station bog. The results of the season do not show a 

 well-defined benefit following from the use of either of the 



