The Station offices and laboratory are in the Station Building, corner of Main St. and University Place. The Station farm is in South Burlington. The Station has telephone connection and may be spoken from the Central Telephone Office and any Hotel in Burlington, and from the Telephone Stations at Essex Junction, Georgia, Milton, St. Albans, Williston, Winooski and Montpelier. W. W. COOKE, Director, Burlington, Vt. Address all communications, not to any individual officer, but to the Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington, Vt. Licensed Fertilizers Sampled by Station Agent. - Average Composition of Licensed Fertilizers... Complete Fertilizers not Sampled by Station Agent. FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1888. The State Agricultural Experiment Station We, the undersigned, duly appointed auditors for the corporation, hereby certify that we have examined the books and accounts of the Experiment Station of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888; that we have found the same well kept and correctly classified as above, and that the receipts for the time named are shown to have been $15,000.00, and the corresponding disbursements $15,000.00, for all of which proper vouchers are on file, and have been by us examined and found correct. M. H. BUCKHAM, Auditing Committee of the Board of Trustees. I hereby certify that the foregoing statement of account, to which this is attached, is a true statement from the books of account of the institution named. HENRY O. WHEELER, SEAL. Treasurer. We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that the above is the signature of H. O. Wheeler, treasurer of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, and that the above is the seal of said institution. G. G. BENEDICT, W. W. COOKE, Director Experiment Station. Sec. U. V. M, State Agricultural College. 2 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. HISTORICAL. As this Report will probably fall into the hands of many who have not seen the previous bulletins and reports of the Experiment Station, it seems to be a fitting time and place in which to give a short sketch of the past history of the Experiment Station, and a statement of its present condition and work. The Experiment Station owes its existence to an act passed by the Legislature in the fall of 1886, in which it says, "there is hereby established a State Agricultural Experiment Station, in connection with, and under the control of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College." That Legislature made a grant of $3500 a year for carrying on the work of the Station, and it was conducted for a little over a year on this appropriation. In the spring of 1888 the United States passed an act appropriating $15,000 to each State for establishing Experiment Stations in connection with the Agricultural Colleges already in existence. The United States act required the acceptance of the grant by the Legislature of each State, and it was left to each Legislature to determine where the money should be put in its own State. The Legislature of Vermont at its session in the fall of 1888 accepted the grant and placed it in the hands of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College to be used for the purpose of conducting an Experiment Station. LOCATION AND EQUIPMENT. The Station is located at Burlington, in connection with the University. The office and laboratory are in a large three story brick building given by the University free of charge, to the Station for its work. This building is not only well suited to the present uses and needs of the Station, but is large enough for any probable future growth. The laboratory is well supplied with all the apparatus and chemicals necessary for doing work in agricul tural analysis, being especially well fitted for the accurate and exact analysis of milk and its various products. |