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present year are carried on under field conditions and on large 
areas. The land which in the future will be devoted to plat 
work must, of necessity, be thoroughly prepared and must be 
uniformly cropped for a time, so that the individuality of each 
plat can be ascertained. | 
Several new lines of work have been taken up by the Station 
during the past year, and time will be required to secure re- 
sults of value from these experiments. 
FARMERS’ INSTITUTES AND OTHER MEETINGS. 
During the winter there is a great demand for members of 
the Station Staff to lecture before the Farmers’ Institutes and 
Grange meetings of the State. We have felt that one thing 
which is needed is to have the farmers of the State become 
more intimately acquainted with the men who are doing the 
Station work. For this reason nearly all requests have been 
responded to, and a large number of the meetings have been 
addressed, not only by the Director, but by other members of 
the staff during the past year. In this way, in part, are the 
results of Station work brought before the farmers of Connec- 
ticut. This work will be continued for the present, even if it 
draws heavily upon the time of some of the Station workers. 
In general the work of the Station has progressed satisfac- 
torily during the past year. Our work in the future will, of 
necessity, be along a few definite lines, and it will be the aim 
of the Station Officers to bring the work more and more into 
direct aid of Connecticut agriculture. 
Dee AMCUINTON: 
