Computor and Mailing Clerk. Address all correspondence, not to individual members of the staff, but to the NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, GENEVA, N. Y. The bulletins published by the Station will be sent free to any farmer applying for them. Members of the faculty of the New York State College of Agriculture affiliated with this Station. STATE OF NEW YORK: DEPARTMENT OF FARMS AND MARKETS, ALBANY, January 7, 1924. To the Legislature of the State of New York: As Commissioner of Farms and Markets, I have the honor to submit herewith the Forty-second Annual Report of the Director of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, at Geneva, N. Y., in pursuance of the provisions of the Agricultural Law. I am respectfully yours, BERNE A. PYRKE, Commissioner of Farms and Markets. [3] NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION R. W. THATCHER, Director HON. CHARLES R. MELLEN, GENEVA, N. Y., June 30, 1923. President of the Board of Control, Dear Sir: In Compliance with Section 306 of Article 14 of the Agricultural Law of New York, I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of the Director of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923. Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the Fortysecond Annual Report of the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, comprising the Treasurer's report and the Director's report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923. Yours respectfully, CHARLES R. MELLEN, President of the Board of Control. GENEVA, N. Y., June 30, 1923. HIS EXCELLENCY, ALFRED E. SMITH, Sir: In compliance with the requirements of the act of the United States Congress of 1887, known as the "Hatch Act," providing for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in the several states, I have the honor to transmit herewith the Forty-second Annual Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923. Yours respectfully, CHARLES R. MELLEN, President of the Board of Control. Need of support for investigations in agricultural production. Progress of Station work. Division of Agronomy. Orchard and vineyard fertilization studies.. Fertilizer experiments with field plats. Lysimeter investigations.... Decomposition and preservation of manure. Division of Animal Industry.. Soil requirements... Feeding experiments with poultry. Breeding experiments with poultry. Division of Bacteriology.. General problems. Technic.. 7 9 11 12 16 18 18 20 20 22 24 24 24 25 25 25 26 26 26 26 27 27 27 27 27 |