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desirability of a discriminating" use of fertilizers and the advantages of 

 more careful cultivation of their crops. The establishment of dairy 

 farming and dairying on a modern scientific basis has been helped by 

 the feeding experiments and other work conducted by the station. 

 The horticultural interests of the State have been promoted by point- 

 ing out improved methods of handling and marketing fruits and vege- 

 tables, by illustrating the opportunities offered by different markets 

 and the varieties adapted to the same, and by the introduction of 

 scientific methods for the repression of insect pests and plant diseases. 

 All of this work has been done with funds appropriated by the 

 National Government, with the exception of the small sums arising 

 from the sale of farm products. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 



Amherst. 



Department of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



James Draper (Chair.), Worcester; James W. Stockwell, Boston; William Wheeler, 

 Concord; Elijah W. Wood, West Newton; William R. Sessions, Springfield; William 

 H. Bowker, Boston; Henry H. Goodell, Amherst. 



STATION STAFF. 



H. H. Goodell, LL. D., President of the College and Director. 



William P. Brooks, Ph. D., Agr. Henri D. Haskins, B. S., Asst. Chem. 



George E. Stone, Ph. D., Bot. and Myc. (Fertilizers). 



Charles A. Goessmann, Ph. D., LL. D., James E. Halligan, Asst. Chem. (Ferti- 



Hon. Dir.; Chem. (Fertilizers). lizers). 



Joseph B. Lindsey, Ph. D., Chem. (Foods Edward B. Holland, M. S., First Chem. 



and Feeding). (Foods and Feeding). 



Charles H. Fernald, Pn. D., Eat. Philip 11. Smith, B. S., Asst. Chem. 



Samuel T. Maynard, B. S. Hort. (Foods and Feeding). 



J. E. Ostrander, C. E., Met. Henry T. Fernald, Ph. D., Assoc. Ent. 



Henry M. Thomson, B. S., Asst. Agr. George A. Drew, B. S., Asst. Hort. 



Ralph E. Smith, B. S., Asst. Bot. and Myc. Henry L. Bodfish, Observer. 



George F. Mills, Treas. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Massachusetts Hatch Station during the past year, 

 as formerly, has included chemical investigations, analysis and inspec- 

 tion of fertilizers and concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, field 

 experiments, horticultural work, study of diseases of plants and ani- 

 mals, digestion and feeding experiments, entomological investigations, 

 study of dairy problems, and meteorological observations. In the 

 division of foods and feeding, investigations are being continued on 



