14 EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



FRED W. MORSE, ACTING DIRECTOR. 



The Agricultural Experiment Station has been unfortunate 

 in the loss of the services of its director during the latter part of 

 the year. Dr. Brooks was obliged to relinquish his work on 

 account of ill health, and accept a leave of absence beginning 

 July 1. 



Vice-Director J. B. Lindsey, who acted by appointment from 

 July 1 to October 1, found his duties as chief of the division 

 of chemistry^ in both college and experiment station, too arduous 

 and exacting to be combined with those of the director. The 

 trustees accordingly appointed Fred W. Morse acting director 

 on October 1. 



There have been several changes among the junior members 

 of the station staff. Mr. Herbert J. Baker resigned his position 

 as secretary to the director on July 1, and accepted a position 

 with the office of farm management in the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture. He was succeeded in the experiment 

 station by Mr. Benjamin G. Southwick, but just at the end 

 of the year Mr. Southwick resigned to take a more responsible 

 position in practical agriculture, and the position will remain 

 unfilled until the return of the director. 



In the department of plant and animal chemistry, Mr. George 

 R. Pierce, Mr. Carleton P. Jones and Mr, Carlos L. Beals were 

 appointed assistants, the first-named in the feed and dairy sec- 

 tion and the others in the fertilizer section. Mr. Pierce re- 

 signed at the end of the year, to go to Cuba, where he is em- 

 ployed in a sugar-house. Miss Lina Fisher has been employed 

 in conjunction with the college, to serve for half of the time 

 as stenographer in the feed and dairy section. 



In the horticultural department, Mr. Howard A. Turner was 



