MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICULTUEAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



OF THE 



MASSACHUSETTS AGEICULTUKAL COLLEGE, 



AMHERST, 3IASS. 



TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 

 Part I. 



Charles H. Preston, Chairman. 

 J. Lewis Ellsworth. 

 Arthur H. Pollard. 

 Charles E. Ward. 

 Harold L. Frost. 



ORGANIZATION. 

 Committee on Experiment Department. 



The President of the College, ex 



officio. 

 The Director of the Station, ex 



officio. 



Station StaS. 

 Charles A. Goessmann, Ph.D., LL.D., Honorary Director and Expert Consulting Chemist, 



40 North Pleasant Street. 

 William P. Brooks, Ph.D., Director and Agriculturist, Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

 Joseph B. Lindsey, Ph.D., Vice-Director and Chemist, 47 Lincoln Avenue. 

 George E. Stone, Ph.D., Botanist and Vegetable Pathologist, Mt. Pleasant. 

 Charles H. Fernald, Ph.D., Entomologist, 3 Hallock Street. 

 James B. Paige, D.V.Sc, Veterinarian, 42 Lincoln Avenue. 

 Frank A. Waugh, M.Sc., Horticulturist, Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

 John E. Ostrander, C.E., Meteorologist, 33 North Prospect Street. 

 Henry T. Fernald, Ph.D., Associate Entomologist, 44 Amity Street. 

 Edward B. Holland, M.Sc, Associate Chemist, 28 North Prospect Street. 

 Henri D. Haskins, B.Sc, Chemist (Fertilizer Control), 89 Pleasant Street. 

 Philip H. Smith, B.Sc, Chemist (Food and Dairy Control), 102 Main Street. 

 Fred C. Sears, M.Sc, Pomologist, Mt. Pleasant. 

 Henry J. Franklin, Ph.D., Assistant Entomologist (Cranberry Investigations), 56 Pleasant 



Street. 

 Erwin S. Fulton, B.Sc, Assistant Agriculturist, North Amherst. 

 Edwin F. Gaskill, B.Sc, Second Assistant Agriculturist, R. J. Goldberg's, North Pleasant 



Street. 

 George H. Chapman, B.Sc, Assistant Botanist, Fearing Street. 

 Jas. C. Reed, B..Sc., Assistant Chemist. 

 Jacob K. Shaw, M.S., .Vssistant Horticulturist. 



