DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR 1900.* 
To the Honorable Board of Control of the New York cguacuitus al 
EHaperiment Station: 
Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit herewith a report of 
the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the year 1900. 
It is a matter of sincere congratulation that I am able to report 
to you the completion of another year’s work of an apparently 
useful character and unattended by any serious disappointments 
or disasters. 
THE STATION STAFF. 
Mr. Wendell Paddock, after serving the Station faithfully and 
efficiently for nearly seven years as Assistant Horticulturist, 
resigned his position on September 15th to accept the chair of 
Botany and Horticulture in the Agricultural College of Colorado. 
Mr. Heinrich Hasselbring, B. S. A., a graduate of Cornell Uni- 
versity from the Course in Agriculture, and for a year assistant 
in botany at that institution, was appointed to fill Mr. Paddock’s 
place. Mr. Hasselbring entered upon his duties November 1, 
1900. 
During the year, acting upon your authority, assistants have 
been appointed in the-departments of Bacteriology, Chemistry 
and Entomology, as follows: 
Lore A. Rogers, B.S., Assistant Bacteriologist, July 10th. 
’ Andrew J. Patten, B.S., Assistant Chemist, August 1st. 
Percival J. Parrott, A.M., Assistant Entomologist, August 1st. 
Mr. Rogers graduated from the Course in Agriculture at the 
University of Maine in 1896, and as special preparation for his 
work spent two years in bacteriological studies, one at the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin and one at this institution. 
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*Reprint of Bulletin No. 195. 
