CONTENTS. 



P.UIT I. 



PAGE 



Station organization, 11 



Report of the director, 13 



Changes in staff, 15 



Buildings, 16 



Station activities, 17 



Publications during 1909, 19 



Publications available for free distribution, 20 



Letters of inquiry, 22 



Lectures and demonstrations, 23 



Miscellaneous analyses, 23 



Control work, 24 



Testing pure-bred cows, 25 



Mailing lists, 25 



Asparagus substation, Concord, 26 



Breeding experiments, 27 



Fertilizer experiments, 27 



Tent experiments, 28 



Cranberry substations, 28 



Fertilizer experiments, 31 



Report of the treasurer, 34 



Report of the agriculturist, 36 



Report of the chemist, 46 



1. Correspondence, 46 



2. Numerical summary of work in the chemical laboratory, . 47 



3. Resume of work of the research section, 47 



4. Work in animal nutrition, 48 



5. Resume of work of the fertilizer section, 48 



(a) Fertilizers licensed, 49 



(6) Fertilizers collected, ........ 49 



(c) Fertilizers analyzed, 50 



(d) Trade values of fertilizing ingredients, . . . . 51 



(e) Summary of analyses and guarantees, .... 52 



(/) Commercial shortages, 53 



ig) Grades of fertilizer, 54 



(h) Unmixed fertilizers, 56 



(1) Nitrogen compounds, 57 



(2) Potash compounds, 58 



(3) Phosphoric acid compounds, .... 58 

 (i) Miscellaneous fertilizers, soils and by-products for free 



analysis, 59 



