DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR ros. 
To the Honorable Board of Control of the New York Agricultural 
EHaperiment Station: 
GENTLEMEN.—I have the honor to submit the following report 
of the institution under your charge for the year 1905. In pre- 
senting this report it gives me sincere pleasure to express my 
warm appreciation of the helpful attitude of sympathy and wise 
support which you have steadily maintained toward me as your 
executive officer. 
It is no less gratifying to again record my sense of obligation 
to the members of the Station staff for their most earnest and 
loya! cu-operation in carrying on the work of the Station. My 
associates share generously with me the responsibilities attending 
our efforts. It has for some years been ‘the policy of this insti- 
tution to grant to the members of the staff, especially to the heads 
of departinents, large liberty in initiating and maintaining those 
lines of work which seem likely to be most fruitful of beneficial 
results. That this policy has justified itself I am firmly con- 
vinced. Indeed, in no other way can there be secured the atmos- 
phere of freedom and inspiration so essential to scientific inquiry. 
CHANGES IN THE STATION STAFF. 
In no year during the life of the Station have the changes in the 
staff been so numerous, and in no year more important. The 
larger number of changes have occurred in the Chemical Depart- 
ment, in fact these have been so many as to cause more or less 
embarrassment. 
It is my painful duty to record here the death of Mr. W. H. 
Andrews, a member of the chemical staff, which occurred at his 
home in Geneva on September 29th. Mr. Andrews first be- 
came connected with the Station in 1891 and had been in its 
service continuously since October Ist, 1895. Not long previous 
to his last illness he was placed in immediate charge of the 
analytical work performed for the Commissioner of Agriculture 
in the inspection of fertilizers and feeding stuffs. Faithfulness 
and efficiency characterized Mr. Andrews’ work no less emphati- 
