MASSACHUSETTS STATE 



Agricultural Im^iwj Stjition, 



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JULY, 1SS3. 



The State Agricultural Experiment Station at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College in Amherst, Mass., was established by an act 

 of the Legislature approved on the I'ith of May, 1SS2. The manage- 

 ment of the Station is vested iu a •' Board of Control," which 

 consists of the governor of tiie state, as president, ex-ofticio ; two 

 members elected by the state board of agriculture; two members 

 from the board of trustei's of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege ; one from the iMas^achusetts Society for promoting agricuitiu'e, 

 and the president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. (See 

 Chap. 212, Laws and llesolves passed by the Legislature in 1882.) 

 The niembei's of the Board, :it their first meeting in July, elected O. 

 B. Hadwen secu-etary, and Tlieodcn-e Lyman treasurer. No faither 

 action was taken on account of the lateness of tlie season, until the 

 following November when a director, a chemist and all necessary 

 assistants, as provided by law, were appointed. The former entered 

 upon his duties on the loth of November, L882, the latter on the 1st 

 of January, 1883. By resolution of the Board its members are dele- 

 gated to visit alternately every month the Station ; and the director 

 is instructed to report its condition and its wants at the bi-monthly 

 meeting of the l)oard. 



The first report of the director was presented to the board at its 

 annual business meeting at the office of the secretary of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, January 30th, 1883. It contained principally 

 a short ontliiie of a series of experiments proposed for the considera- 

 tion of the Board as the basis of the first year's work of the Station, 

 besides a detailed statement concerning the chemical work carried on 

 since its establishment. The essential contents of the report are 

 C^jublished in the annual rep(nt of the secretary of the State Board of 

 ^•'Agriculture for 1882. The college buildings selected bj' the Board 



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