Report of the Executive Committee. 
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To flis Excellency Lorrin A. Cooke, 
Governor of Connecticut: 
In accordance with the resolution of the General Assembly 
concerning the congressional appropriations to Agricultural 
Hxperiment Stations, and an Act of the General Assembly 
approved March 1g, 1895, relating to the publication of the 
Reports of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, we 
have the honor to present herewith the Ninth Annual Report 
of that Station, namely, that for the year 1896. : 
The accompanying report of the Treasurer gives the details 
of receipts and expenditures. We refer you to the report of 
the Director and his associates for a statement of the work 
accomplished during the past year. We are confident that the 
funds have been wisely expended and that the work accom- 
plished is such as will result in great benefit to our agricultural 
‘and other interests. 
Mr. Chas. D. Woods, Vice-Director of the Station, resigned 
his position July 1, 1896, to accept that of Professor of Agri- 
culture and Director of the Experiment Station of the Maine 
State College. Professor Woods has been corfhected with the 
Storrs Station since a short time after its organization. His 
services have been most valuable and highly appreciated. 
While the Executive Committee share with the other friends 
of experiment stations in Connecticut the sense of the loss to 
our State, they are at the same time glad that the field of labor 
to which he has been called should be one of so large useful- 
ness and honor. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Toes GOLD: B ye 
HM MUIBEAR De uy honin 
Committee. 
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