REPORT OF VICE-DIRECTOR. 113 



REPORT OF YICE-DIRECTOR. 



To Charles S. JMitrklajid^ President : 



By the resignation of the director, Prof. William D. Gibbs, 

 August 31, it has become my duty to prepare the annual 

 report of this station, and I, therefore, have the honor to sub- 

 mit the following : 



The Agricultural Experiment vStation has been seriously 

 handicapped during the year now closed, bv the repeated 

 changes in its Agricultural Department, which prevents con- 

 tinuity of work and completion of experiments, and results 

 in a lack of material for bulletins in subjects of paramount 

 importance to the farmers of the state. 



The other departments are each doing their full share of 

 work in research and practice* and the bulletins of the station 

 iire in continuous demand both without and within the state. 

 But the nien in those departments cannot well take up the 

 notes gathered in the Agricultural Department, collate them 

 and write out the results in a bulletin, and at the same time 

 further the work in their own proper lines. 



Prof. William D. Gibbs was elected director and agricul- 

 turist and entered upon his duties January i, 1902; but 

 resigned September i to accept a larger field in Texas. 



Prof. Harry Hay ward, M. S., was appointed agriculturist, 

 September i, 1902. 



Mr. Herbert M. Tucker was appointed superintendent of 

 the farm, April i, 1902. 



Mr. Lucian A. Hill, A. B., assistant chemist, March 15, 

 1902. 



Mr. Arthur L. Sullivan, B. S., assistant chemist, Sep- 

 tember 15, 1902. 



Nine bulletins in the regular series have been published 

 during the year as follows : 



