12 DiIRECTOR’sS REPORT OF THE 
City where long established and intensive agriculture had come 
to have serious problems relating to fungoid and insect pests. 
It was thought best by those administering the affairs of the 
Station at that time to establish a branch office at Jamaica, 
L. I., as a center from which to work. This was probably a wise 
arrangement under the conditions then prevailing. Since that 
time the Station has become more fully organized into well 
defined departments and it is now clearly good policy to so 
rearrange the administration of our outside experimental work 
as to bring the responsibility and details directly to the several 
departments of the Station. Moreover, there appears to be no 
eood reason for the extra expense attending a branch office 
because of duplication of men and equipment. Acting in accord- 
ance with these views your Board voted to discontinue the 
branch office at Jamaica after June 30, 1902. It is definitely 
understood that this action is in no way to affect the character 
or extent of the experiments conducted in Eastern New York 
unless it have the effect of enlargment and greater efficiency, 
and any assertions to the contrary by the uninformed should be 
discredited. 
INSPECTION WORK. 
The inspection of fertilizers, feeding stuffs, Babcock glassware 
and insecticides has come to absorb a generous share of the 
energy of the Station staff. 
The data collected for 1901 is briefly summarized in what 
follows: 
Inspection of fertilizers—During the year 1901, there were col- 
lected for analysis 963 samples of commercial fertilizers, repre- 
senting 456 different brands; of these 324 brands were complete 
fertilizers. The average amounts of plant-food constituents ° 
found and guaranteed are as follows: 
Available, 
Nitrogen. phosphoric acid. Potash. 
Per ct. Per ct. Per ct. 
Fuaranteed 7248s co ete ee REL Ls - 1.89 of false. 4.13 
MOund sacha fous tees od arte 2.0r 8.80 4.47 
In six cases, the nitrogen and phosphoric acid were more than 
0.5 per ct. below guarantee; in 16 cases, the potash was more 
than 0.5 per ct. below guarantee. 
