Report of the Director for the Year 1897. 

The present is the Tenth Annual Report of this Station. 
The operations of the Station actually began in the spring of 
1888, so that the First Annual Report covered the work of 
only part of a year. ‘The succeeding Reports have each 
included the work of a full year. By Act of the General 
Assembly of Connecticut the sum of $15,000, received annually 
by the State of Connecticut from the general Government for 
the purpose of maintaining an experiment station or stations, 
is divided, one-half being entrusted to the Board of Control of 
the State Experiment Station, and the other to the Board of 
Trustees of the Storrs Agricultural College. The Storrs Sta- 
tion thus has but $7,500 per annum from the general Govern- 
ment for its regular work. ‘This sum has, however, during 
the past two years been supplemented by a grant of $1,800 per 
annum from the General Assembly of the State, to be used 
“for the purpose of investigating the economy of the food and 
nutrition of man, and for investigations of the bacteria of milk, 
butter, and cheese, and their effect in dairying.’’ ‘The whole 
income of the Station from public sources thus amounts to 
$9,300 per annum. Of the other stations in this and the 
neighboring States no one receives less than $15,000 per 
annum, while several have incomes of more than $2 5,000. 
With so limited an income this Station would not be war- 
ranted in undertaking so numerous and extensive inquiries as 
those it has carried on, were it not for special advantages with 
which it has been, and still continues to be favored. Since its 
organization its chemical and_ bacteriological investigations 
have been carried on at Wesleyan University, whose laboratory 
and library facilities, with the services of experts, have been at 
its disposal. Fora time the U.S. Department of Labor defrayed 
a part of the expense of dietary studies, accounts of which have 
been published in the Annual Reports of the Station. For 
several years past the Station has worked in codperation with 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture in investigations of the 
