APPHNDIX. 
Report of the Director 
KHOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 830, 1902. 
The subjects of experimental investigation undertaken by 
the Station during the year r901-2 were similar to those of 
previous years. ‘This was in accordance with the policy of 
the Station since its foundation, namely, to undertake com- 
paratively few lines of work, have these as nearly parallel as 
practicable, and continue them from year to year as long as cir- 
cumstances should warrant. The principal inquiries conducted 
for a number of years had to do with the nutrition of plants, 
domestic animals and man, and the bacteriology of the dairy. 
These included experiments on the effects of fertilizers upon 
the growth and composition of plants, studies of rations fed to 
milch cows, studies of bacteria, especially those concerned in 
normal cream ripening, and investigations of the food and nu- 
trition of man. 
Inquiries along the various lines were taken up as usual- 
during the year rgo1—2, but the work of the Station was inter- 
rupted in several ways and part of it had to be terminated in 
an unfinished condition. Prof. C. 5. Phelps, who had charge 
of all the work done at Storrs, including the investigations with 
plants and animals, resigned his position as vice director and 
agriculturist of the Station during the middle of the year; and 
at the same time it was decided to transfer to Storrs as much 
as possible of the work that up to that time had been carried 
on at Middletown. ‘The work at Storrs undertaken by Prof. 
Phelps during the year could not be completed and conse- 
quently there were no results to be reported. ‘The remainder 
of the work for the year 1901-2, 7. é., investigations in nutri- 
tion and dairy bacteriology, was carried out without interrup- 
tion, but some of this, particularly that having to do with the 
food and nutrition of man, forms a part of consecutive inquiries 
extending over a number of years, and the results of the work 
