Report of the Director for the Year 1890. 
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During the year 1899 the work of the Station has been along 
lines similar to those followed for several years past. It in- 
cludes experiments on the effects of fertilizers upon the growth 
and composition of plants, studies of dairy bacteriology and of 
bovine tuberculosis, and investigations upon the food and nutri- 
tion of man. The digestion experiments with sheep which 
have been carried on for a number of years have been discon- 
tinued. Studies of milk production by cows, carried out with 
the college and private herds, by Prof. C. L. Beach, of the 
Connecticut Agricultural College, were reported in Bulletin 20 
of the Station. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 
The usual observations of temperature, barometric pressure, 
wind velocity, humidity and precipitation have been made at 
Storrs. In addition, records of rainfall during the growing 
season have been made in other places by farmers who have 
cooperated with the Station. 
EXPERIMENTS ON THE EFFECT OF FERTILIZERS UPON THE 
YIELD AND THE COMPOSITION OF CROPS. 
Plot experiments.—¥From the time of its establishment the 
-Station has been engaged in experiments for testing the effects 
of fertilizers upon the amounts and composition of the crops 
produced. These have been made principally with grasses, 
grains, and legumes. Several series have been carried out 
continuously on the same land year after year. The larger 
number have been made in the field, but some, with grasses, 
have been conducted on a smaller scale in the experimental 
garden. ‘The results have been reported from year to year. 
During the past year these experiments have been made with 
corn, cow peas, soy beans, and various species of grasses, in 
both the field and in the garden. 
