Directors KEPORT* 
To the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station : 
GENTLEMEN.— I herewith submit the eighth annual report of the 
Experiment Station for the calendar year 1889. 
By reference to the report of the executive committee of the 
board of control, it will be seen that during the past year there 
have been made extended improvements in the buildings of the 
Station, involving the practical reconstruction of several, and the 
erection of one for the purpose of increasing our facilities in the 
work of investigation. 
These repairs have been mainly carried forward under the per- 
sonal supervision of the director, and have largely engaged him 
during the season. In fact, while the routine work of the Station 
has been carried forward during the past year, and important 
investigations conducted in the laboratory, in the feeding pens, 
- and upon the farm, as will be seen by reference to this report, it 
has been rather a year of preparation for what it is hoped may be 
even more valuable work in the future. 
A large amount of additional work in the field, stables and 
laboratory, is involved in the investigations in progress with the 
individuals of the several breeds of dairy cattle, which have been 
secured, but that the practical results which are sure to come 
from such work will fully justify this additional care and expense 
no one can question who is at all familiar with the problems which © ! 
await solution in connection with this industry. 
In fact, the entire dairy industry is environed with SraAe a 
questions which can only be solved by long continued and care- 
fully conducted experiment and investigation, such as our several 
stations are competent to carry forward, under the advice, sugges- 
tion, and if necessary codperation of the dairymen themselves who 
are chiefly to reap the benefits of the work. 
*Peter Collier, A. M., M. D., Ph. D. 
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