Report of the Director. 
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The Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station is organized 
under an act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887, and it is 
established ‘‘’To aid in acquiring and diffusing among the peo- 
ple of the United States useful and practical information on 
subjects connected with agriculture and to promote scientific 
investigation and to experiment respecting the principles and 
application of agricultural science.’’ 
The Experiment Station is maintained by a federal appro- 
priation of $7,500 per year and by a state appropriation of 
$1,800 per year. Only one-half of the federal appropriation 
for experiment station work in Connecticut is received by the 
Storrs Experiment Station. In addition to the direct state ap- 
propriation of $1,800, the printing of the annual report and 
the bulletins of the Station is paid for by the state. 
In carrying on the work of investigation the Station has been 
fortunate in being able to cooperate in certain lines of work 
with the United States Department of Agriculture, and as a 
result of this cooperation experiments have been undertaken 
and results have been secured and the work of the Station has 
been greatly enhanced. ‘The Station is also indebted to the 
Connecticut Agricultural College for valuable assistance. Only 
through the cooperation of Station and College have we been 
able to carry on much of the work which has been in progress. 
The College has freely permitted men-in its employment to 
conduct experiments and-to give to the Station the benefit of 
their work. To President R. W. Stimson and the Board of 
Trustees of the College and Station credit should be given not 
only for sympathy with our work, but for actual assistance 
rendered personally and through the College employees. 
CHANGES IN THE STAFF. 
During the past year several changes have occurred in the 
staff of the Experiment Station. Dr. B. F. Koons, consulting 
entomologist, died Dec. 17, 1903. While Dr. Koons had not 
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