REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 
To the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural Hxperiment 
Station : 
GENTLEMEN —I hereby submit my first annual report for the year 
1882. 
Arriving at Geneva February 28, I took possession of the Station 
property March 1, and on March 3 employed a janitor previously 
hired through the assistance of Mr. Swan. ‘T'he former owner was 
still occupying the buildings, and the whole premises, including the 
barns and out-buildings, were out of repair and in disorder. On 
March 2 I engaged carpenters, and the carpenters’ work done to date 
comprises the general repairs of the house and buildings, the putting 
in of library shelves and office fittings, the fitting of the laboratory 
and the work-room, the making of a passage-way. to the second story 
L room, which had never been connected with the main building, and 
to which there was no means of access except through the windows, 
the carrying of a dumb-waiter from the. kitchen to the south-east 
_ second story room, the fitting of a pantry, the fitting of an experi- 
mental cattle barn, the building of a green-house, and the necessary 
carpenters’ work required for the purposes of the mason and 
plumbers. 
On March 27 a mason commenced work by repairing plastering, and 
at various times has worked at cutting through the doors for the pas- 
sage-way to the L room in the second story, one door in cellar to walk 
under piazza, the deepening of the cellar window, the laying over 
piazza walks and repairing brick edgings, the building of a lysimeter 
pit, of a tank in the garden, of a silo, of a pit for the gas machine, on 
walls of the green-house, and various miscellaneous work about founda- 
tions of buildings, mending, plastering, etc. 
_A painter was employed in doing the work made necessary by the 
changes in the dwelling, and a glazier was required to replace many 
panes of glass. The painter and glazier were also employed upon the 
green-house structure, which was completed in October. 
About the last of April the plumbing was found to be in such 
shocking condition that it seemed wiser to re-plumb than to at- 
tempt an almost interminable series of repairs ; hence, the first of 
May the old pipes and connections were restored, and in addition pipes 
were carried to the cellar and laboratory, to the pantry and wash-room. 
In October we had completed the putting in of a Springfield gas 
machine for furnishing gas for laboratory use, and had in running order 
