144 KEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station, New Brunswick. 

 Department of Rutgers College. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Trustees — Executive Committee: Austin Scott ( Chair. ) , New Brunswick; 

 Henry W. Bookstaver, 24 East 64th st., New York City; Henry R. Baldwin, New 

 Brunswick; James Neilson, New Brunswick; Paul Cook, Troy, N. Y; Wm. H. Leupp, 

 New Brunsimck. 



STATION STAFF. 



Austin Scott, Ph. D., LL. D., President of the College. 

 Edward B. Voorhees, D. Sc, Dir. Wm. P. Allen, Asst. Chem. 



Julius Nelson, Ph. D., Biol. James A. Kelsey, M. S., Field Asst. 



Byron D. Halsted, D. Sc, Bot. and Hort. Irving S. Upson, M. A., Disbursing Clerk 

 John B. Smith, D. Sc, Ent. and Libr. 



Augusta E. Meske, Sten. and Typewriter. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The New Jersey State and College Stations continue to be under the 

 supervision of the same director and to issue their publications in one 

 series. Most of the work of these stations during the past year has 

 been along the same lines as heretofore, including chemical studies of 

 fertilizers and soils, feeding stuffs, and dairy products; meteorolog- 

 ical observations; cultural experiments with orchard and small fruits, 

 garden vegetables, ornamental plants, and lettuce and radishes under 

 glass; an extended investigation of pear growing in the State; experi- 

 ments with various forage <§rops, including soiling crops for dairy 

 cows; rotation experiments with soiling crops; inoculation experi- 

 ments with soy beans; experiments in feeding for milk and for fat; 

 studies of abortion among dairy cows; observations on tuberculosis with 

 special reference to detection, contagiousness, rapidity of development 

 and curative action of repeated injections o«f tuberculin; biological 

 studies of an intestinal disease of ducks; experiments with soil fungi- 

 cides for potato and turnip diseases, including tests of the suscepti- 

 bility of different varieties; studies of soil rot of sweet potatoes and 

 club root of turnips; experiments with Nitragin and Alinit; investi- 

 gations in shading; observations on the growth habits of weeds; 

 experiments with asparagus rust and pear blight and the forcing of 

 peaches; entomological investigations on plant lice, peach thrips, and 

 insects injurious to orchard trees, small fruits, field crops, truck crops, 

 and shade trees; experiments with insecticides, especially crude petro- 

 leum; extended investigations of the San Jose scale with special refer- 

 ence to distribution, remedies, and methods of application. 



The last session of the State legislature appropriated $3,000 for the 

 inspection of foods and feeding stuffs. The work was undertaken and 

 carried out during the year by the State Station, and a bulletin con- 

 taining the results of the study has been published. This appropria- 



