_ New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 9 
The position vacated by Prof. Beach has been filled by. the 
selection of Prof. U. P. Hedrick, M.S. Prof. Hedrick comes to us 
from the Michigan Agricultural College, of which institution he 
is a graduate and in which he served for six years as Assistant 
Professor or full Professor of Horticulture. He had previously 
held positions as Inspector of Orchards and Nurseries in Michi- 
igan and as Professor of Botany and Horticulture in the agricul- 
tural colleges of Oregon and Utah. The wide acquaintance with 
the facts and principles of horticulture possessed by Prof. Hed- 
rick, his extended opportunities for practical observation and his 
experience aS a public speaker, designated him as _ peculiarly 
fitted to lead the horticultural activities of the Station. 
The vacancies in the chemical department have been filled by 
the choice of Mr. Ernest L. Baker, B. S., a graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Maine, and at the time of his election a post graduate 
student in Columbia University; Mr. Alfred W. Bosworth, B. S., 
a graduate of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Me- 
chaniec Arts, and later a student for a time at Yale University, 
who when called to Geneva was serving as Chemist at_the Storrs 
(Conn.) Agricultural Experiment Station; Mr. William E. Tot- 
tingham, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
who subsequent to his graduation served his Alma Mater first as 
Assistant Chemist to the Experiment Station and later as Instruc- 
tor in chemistry; and Mr. Arthur W. Clark, a graduate of the 
University of Vermont who previous to accepting his present 
position was assistant chemist in the Pennsylvania Agricultural 
Experiment Station. 
THE GROWTH OF THE STATION AND ITS NEEDS, 
During the past ten years there has been a gradual, and in 
the aggregate, a large growth of the Station equipment and 
work. There has not been a corresponding increase of mainte- 
nance funds and the time has now come when the question of the 
further development of the Station’s activities, indeed the 
maintenance of the work it is now doing, must receive your 
serious consideration. 
A few comparisons will serve to set forth the situation as it 
now exists. 
In 1896 the science staff numbered fourteen (14) as against 
twenty-two (22) at the present time, an increase of fifty-seven 
per ct. During this period the clerical staff has doubled. 
