
Report of the Director for the Year 1895. 
BY. W.-O. ATWATER: 

The principal subjects of inquiry and lines followed during 
the past year may be concisely stated as follows: 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 
These have been continued during the past year, as pre- 
viously, at Storrs, where records have been made of tem- 
perature, barometric pressure, wind velocity, humidity, rainfall, 
and snowfall. In addition, records of rainfall during the 
growing season have been made in other places in the State 
by farmers who have conducted field experiments in co-opera- 
tion with the Station. 
FIELD EXPERIMENTS. 
These have been: (a) With fertilizers;' (4) With forage 
plants; (c) On green manuring. 
As in previous years, the field experiments have been con- 
ducted at the Station and by farmers on their farms in different 
places. The results in the main are confirmatory of those of 
previous years, but with the increased experimenting the 
amount and value of the information gained increase in larger 
ratio. © 
IRRIGATION. 
A new line of experimenting has been undertaken during 
the past season, in the form of tests of the effects of irrigation 
upon the production of strawberries. ‘The work was done in 
co-operation with one of the prominent strawberry growers of 
the State, upon his own fields. The results,were very success- 
ful and tend to confirm the impression that irrigation, not only 
of small fruits, but of other crops as well, may prove a much 
greater aid in their cultivation than has heretofore been sup- 
posed. 
DAIRYING. 
The work directly connected with the dairy interests has 
been mainly upon two subjects: (a) Bacteria of the dairy, in- 
cluding laboratory studies and co-operative experiments with 
creameries; (4) Yield and composition of milk on dairy farms. 
