FIRST ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

STORRS SCHOOL

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION,

STORRS, CONN.,

1888.

Printed by Order of the General Assembly.

HARTFORD, CONN.:

PRESS OF THE CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD COMPANY.

1889.

CONTENTS.

Trustees of the Storrs School,

Officers of the Station,

Report of the Executive Committee,

Resolution of the General Assembly concerning appropria-

tions,

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Experiments on the Effect of Surface Tillage on Soil

Moisture,

Roots of Plants as manure,

Meteorological Observations,

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Co-operative Field Experiments with Fertilizers,

Grass and Forage Garden,

Cow Peas,

T. S. GOLD, WEST CORNWALL, Of the Board of Trustees of

J. M. HUBBARD, MIDDLETOWN,

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B. F. KOONS, STORRS, Principal of the School.

Storrs Agricultural School.

TREASURER.

JOHN P. BARSTOW, NORWICH.

WORKING FORCE.

*W. O. ATWATER, Director.

C. S. PHELPS, Vice-Director.

C. D. WOODS, Chemist.

H. B. GIBSON, Assistant Chemist.

E. A. BAILEY, Assistant in Farm Experiments.

Since October 1st, the Director has been engaged in the direction of the Office of Experiment Stations of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and has been able to exercise only a general supervision of the work of the Station.

REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

To his Excellency MORGAN G. BULKELEY, Governor of Connecticut:

In accordance with a resolution of the General Assembly, approved May 18, 1887, concerning congressional appropriations to agricultural experiment stations, and an act of the General Assembly, approved March 6, 1889, entitled "An Act relating to the publication of Reports of the Storrs School Agricultural Experiment Station," we have the honor to present the first Annual Report of the Storrs School Agricultural Experiment Station.

RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
APPROVED MAY 18, 1887.

Concerning Appropriations to Agricultural Experiment Stations.
Resolved by this Assembly:

SECTION 1. That this State accepts and assents to the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved March second, 1887, entitled "An Act to establish Agricultural Experiment Stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States, under the provisions of an act approved July second, 1862, and of the acts supplementary thereto."

SEC. 2. The farm attached to the Storrs Agricultural School may be used as an experimental farm for the purposes specified in the act first mentioned; and the trustees of that schcel and their successors in office are hereby appointed to receive and expend onehalf of such moneys as may come to this State, under the provisions of said act first mentioned.