“Report of the Director. 

During the past year the Station has been reorganized, and 
the Director’s office has been located at the Connecticut Agri- 
cultural College. The entire equipment of the college, so far 
as it can be used without interfering with college work, has 
been made available for the Experiment Station work. There 
are many reasons why it is an advantage to have the Experi- 
ment Station connected with the college. The Station alone 
would be unable to maintain a herd of cows for dairy experi- 
ments; it would be unable to maintain an extensive poultry 
plant which is at its service in connection with the college; and 
in other respects are the advantages equally evident. 
Whenever changes are made in station organization it re- 
quires some time to get experiments started along new lines. 
Various members of the faculty of the Connecticut Agricul- 
tural College have given valuable service to the Experiment 
Station and have furnished for station use notes upon expert- 
ments which they have conducted in past years before their 
connection with the Station. The lines of work which are 
now in operation have been selected with special reference to 
the needs of Connecticut agriculture. Every station should 
have in its work a two-fold object; to discover new truths and 
to illustrate and emphasize and bring to the attention of the 
farmers old truths in a practical form. If the Connecticut 
farmers should all put into practice the best systems which are 
now known, a great step in advance would be made. It is the 
duty of the Experiment Station to emphasize the importance 
of better methods of tillage and economical use of fertilizers, 
as well as to discover new scientific truths. 

* For report of the Director for the year ending June 30, 1902, see appendix. 
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