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$5,000 per year, wliich may be expended for labor, and a 

 student requiring aid may pay a considerable part of his 

 college expenses in this way. 



Other Funds. 



Several philantliropic persons have also established funds 

 for worthy students requiring aid. There is the Mary 

 Robinson fund of $1,000, the Whiting Street fund of $1,000 

 and the Henry Gassett fund of $1,000. 



The Experiment Stations. 



In 1882 the State Experiment Station, so called, was 

 established by an act of the Massachusetts Legislature. 

 The Hatch Experiment Station was established by an act of 

 Congress, Feb. 25, 1887. The State Experiment Station 

 and the Hatch Experiment Station are now consolidated by 

 an act of the Legislature, under the name and style of the 

 Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College. 



The work of the consolidated stations has been conducted 

 in much the same manner as in previous years. At the time 

 of your committee's visit, in August, the diflerent varieties 

 of millet (seventeen in number) were about mature, and pre- 

 sented a very interesting exhibit. Eighty varieties of pota- 

 toes and twenty-eight of corn were grown in this department. 

 At the barn of the department of foods and feeding, in charge 

 of Dr. J. B. Lindsey, experiments are being conducted in 

 feeding milch cows diiferent samples of salt and meadow 

 hays, obtained from near the sea shore, to test their value, 

 as compared with English or upland hay. A large wing has 

 been added to the main experiment station building, furnish- 

 ing much-needed room for the laboratories connected with 

 the same. 



Horticultural Department. 



The work of this department of the college has during the 

 past season been carried on on lines similar to those of pre- 

 ceding years. The income from the sale of fruit, vegetables, 

 flowers, trees, shrubs and plants has been about the same as 



