xii Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Board of Trustees on the Station Council in place of Frank E. 

 Guernsey and Chas. S. Bickford. 



Roydon L. Hammond, Seed Analyst and Photographer, re- 

 signed on October i, to accept a similar position with the Dela- 

 ware State Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl, Collaborating Biologist for the Station, 

 resigned this position in June. The poultry records and much 

 other material which he was preparing for publication in bulle- 

 tins of the Maine Station were all lost in a fire which destroyed 

 the old group of buildings at Johns Hopkins University early in 

 the year. 



On December ist, after nearly twenty-five years of efficient 

 service as Director of the Maine Experiment Station, Dr. Chas. 

 D. Woods' term of office was abruptly terminated. This unfor- 

 tunate occurrence came at a very inopportune time. The year's 

 work had been nearly completed but the' Annual Report which 

 was always arranged by him had not been prepared. The Re- 

 port consists largely of bulletins issued at intervals through the 

 year giving the results of most of the work done by the Station. 

 The Director, however, carried on some experimental work un- 

 der his own supervision the results of which no one else was 

 very familiar. This had not been prepared for publication and 

 is consequently omitted from the Report. 



Soil Test Experiment. 



The soil test experiment at Aroostook Farm which was 

 started in 1916 is still in progress. A new piece of land, .how- 

 ever, has been taken for the purpose. The first piece selected 

 gave such uneven yields that we were forced to the conclusion 

 that the soil lacked the necessary uniformity for this type of 

 work. The new piece was divided into plots and planted to 

 potatoes in 1919, without fertilizer, to test its uniformity. The 

 yields (on the different plots) were quite uneven but whether 

 these differences were due to previous treatments and will dis- 

 appear with further cropping cannot now be told. In 1920 all 

 the plots were dressed with ground limestone, sowed to oats and 

 seeded down to clover. The yields of oats were somewhat more 

 even than those of the potatoes but not so even as desirable and 

 further cropping may be necessary before the experiment with 

 chemicals can be begun. 



