AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION II9 



REPORT OF THE VICE-DIRECTOR 



To Charles S. Mu7-kland^ Acting Director: 



The work of the experiment station has been continued dur- 

 ing the year, closely along the lines described in the last annual 

 report. Its facilities for investigation have been notably in- 

 creased by the privileges afforded in the new green-house, 

 insectary, and cold-storage cellar constructed by the college 

 from the state's biennial appropriation ; and consequently the 

 scope of its experiments for the coming year will be widened. 



The station has co-operated with farmers in testing varieties 

 of potatoes, with creameries in settling disputes about milk- 

 testing, with lumbermen in studying the destruction of the 

 spruce forests by insects, and with the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture in the inspection of commercial fertilizers, the exposure of 

 sales of oleomargarine, and in institute work. 



The following bulletins have been published during the year : 



No. 41. Potatoes, Varieties, Fertilizers, and Scab. By F. 

 Wm. Rane and Leigh Hunt. Pages 1-14. 



No. 42. Tomato Growing in New Hampshire. Notes on 

 Tomato Breeding. By F. Wm. Rane and Leigh Hunt. 

 Pages 15-26. 



No. 43. Some Inferior Wood Ashes. By Fred W. Morse. 

 Pages 27-30. 



No. 44. The Canker Worm. Bv Clarence M. Weed. 

 Pages 31-42. 



No. 45. Fruit and Potato Diseases. By H. H. Lamson. 

 Pages 43-56. 



No. 46. An Experiment with a Steam Drill. Methods of 

 Road Maintenance. By Charles H. Pettee. Pages 57-8S. 



No. 47. The Sti-a wherry in New Hampshire. By F. Wm. 

 Rane. Pages 89-114. 



No. 48. Ninth Annual Report. 



The following changes have occurred in the station staff: 



On January 15, 1S97, M'"- R"el S. Alden resigned his posi- 

 tion as assistant agriculturist and farm superintendent, and the 

 scope of Mr. Leigh Hunt's work was enlarged to include it. 

 Mr. William F. Fiske was appointed assistant entomologist on 



