14 EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Particular attention is called to the fact that the passage 

 of the Adams act has not in the slightest degree increased the 

 amount of station funds available for more popular and directly 

 practical station work. Indeed, in one direction the passage of 

 the Adams act has imposed an additional tax upon other station 

 funds, for the act provides that the expense of publication of the 

 results of Adams fund research work cannot be paid from that 

 fund. Such expense must be borne by other station funds. 

 There has been no change in the amount of such funds available 

 to this station, with the exception of an addition of $500 made 

 about seven years ago, during the past twenty-one years. Mean- 

 while, there have been constantly increasing demands upon the 

 station for work of various kinds, while there has inevitably been 

 a tendency to broaden the scope of such experiments as are al- 

 ready carried on under these funds. The fertilizer control work, 

 moreover, now encroaches upon ordinary station funds. The 

 costs of the collection of samples, analytical work and the publi- 

 cation of the bulletin now considerably exceed the amount of 

 license fees received. This topic will be more fully discussed 

 later in the report, but is mentioned here simply to emphasize 

 the fact that available station resources are not sufficient to 

 cover the costs of such additions to our work as are called for. 

 Poultry men, tobacco growers and cranberry growers, particu- 

 larly, are urging the experiment station to undertake experi- 

 ments for the promotion of these industries. Every possible 

 economy has been used in the expenditure of station funds. A 

 small amount has been made available for co-operative exjieri- 

 ments with tobacco, and some work with cranberries will be un- 

 dertaken during the coming year. The possibilities, however, of 

 carrying on such work as the men engaged in these industries 

 would like to see undertaken are comparatively small. The de- 

 mands upon the station during the past twenty-one years have 

 greatly increased, and they have never increased at a more rapid 

 rate than within the past year. It would seem to be quite time, 

 therefore, to ask for increased funds to provide for the growth 

 in station work which the times demand. 



