DIRECTORS REPORT. 
To the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station: 
GENTLEMEN.— I herewith submit the tenth annual report of the 
Experiment Station for the calendar year 1891. 
The report of the executive committee of the Board of Control 
will show what has been accomplished under their direction 
during the past year in the erection of the new chemical labora- 
tory and in the necessary repairs and improvements to buildings, 
fences and roads. Their report presents also a general statement 
of the work which has been carried forward by the different 
members of the staff, and their opinion as to what additional 
facilities are demanded in order to render the work of the Station 
of still greater value to the farmers of the State. 
BULLETINS PUBLISHED DurRING THE YEAR 1891. 
During 1891 there have been distributed twelve bulletins, con- 
‘taining an aggregate of 326 pages, upon the following subjects: 
Bulletin No. 26.— January, 1891. 
New York State Fertilizer Control: 
Outline of the history of commercial fertilizers. 
General principles underlying the use of commercial fertilizers. 
Bulletin No. 27.—February, 1891. 
New York State Fertilizer Control: 
General principles. underlying the use of fertilizers. 
Bulletin No. 28.— April, 1891. 
Pig feeding experiments with coarse foods: 
Results with prickly comfrey. 
* Peter Collier, A. M., M. D., Ph. D. 
