succeeded by Prof. Oscar Clute, who was also president of the college. The present incumbent has served in both capacities since October, 1897.

ORGANIZATION.

The board of control of the station is the board of trustees of the college, which consists of seven members appointed by the governor for terms of four years, and confirmed by the State senate. Not more than two members may belong to the county in which the college and station are located. Meetings of the board are held at the call of the president of the board. No compensation is allowed for services. The State treasurer is ex officio treasurer of the station.

The staff consists of the president of the college (who is also director), a biologist and horticulturist, chemist, agriculturist, entomologist, farm foreman, auditor and bookkeeper, and foreman of garden and orchards, appointed by the board of control for a term of one year. The duties of the director are chiefly administrative. His approval is required prior to all expenditures of funds. He edits and publishes the bulletins and reports and has general supervision of all the work of the station.

EQUIPMENT.

The station buildings comprise a chemical laboratory, residences for the farm foreman and gardener, fertilizer and tool house, two barns, tobacco house, forcing house and conservatory, building containing a stable, tool house, and office of the farm foreman, and several other small buildings. The chemical laboratory (Pl. XXXII, fig. 1) is a frame building, 50 by 60 feet, two stories and basement. It is used partly for college and partly for station purposes. At present the offices of the director, agriculturist, and auditor are in this building. The botanical and entomological laboratories are on the third floor of the main college building (Pl. XXXII, fig. 2), which is a three-story brick structure, 105 by 43 feet.

The station makes use of a part of the college farm. Forty-five acres are devoted to field experiments and 8 acres to plat experiments. All experimental plats contain one-tenth acre each. The station owns a few horses, 12 head of dairy stock, 70 swine, about 30 ducks, and a small flock of geese. The dairy animals are used in feeding experiments and in demonstrating the practicability of breeding up a dairy herd from native stock. Individual animals are purchased from time to time for the purposes of special experiments. The station makes use of the col ege museums, which contain about 5,000 specimens of insects and 6,000 specimens of plants, as well as specimens in various other branches of natural history. The station library contains about 2,000 volumes, and the college library about 3,000 volumes. The two libraries are kept together.

In the agricultural division several pieces of apparatus have been devised for use in handling sugar cane or in the manufacture of cane sugar. These are a sirup tester for determining the relative density of sirup, which is designed to assist the manufacturer in producing a uniform grade of product; a set of steam evaporating pans for use in making sirup without the direct application of heat; a filter for straining or clarifying cane juice; a modification of the upright cane mill, adapted for use with steam power; and a new centrifugal machine for the separation of sugar from molasses.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

The financial support of the station is derived from the national fund and the sale of farm products. During the last fiscal year it was as follows:

United States appropriation..
Farm products.

Total....

$15,000.00
155.90

15, 155.90

LINES OF WORK.

The station has no regular inspection duties. The entomologist occasionally inspects nursery stock and issues certificates of apparent freedom from scale and other injurious insects. No revenue is derived from this work.

The investigations of the station have been, in general, restricted to such as would be of immediate practical benefit to the agricultural industries of the State and have been along lines of horticulture, with its important branches of plant diseases and economic entomology, and agriculture, emphasizing especially fertilizer and cultural tests with the staple field crops of the State. Considerable attention has been given to the culture of the pineapple (Pl. XXXIII, fig. 1), and numerous fertilizer tests have been made with it (Pl. XXXIII, fig. 2). General studies have been made of methods of cultivation of many of the garden vegetables grown for home consumption or the Northern market, with a view to their improvement (Pl. XXXIV, fig. 1). In 1895 a general survey was made of the condition and culture of the orange groves of the State. The strawberry has been similarly

studied.

Along lines of entomology studies have been made on the life history and habits of a number of the more injurious insects of the State, together with experimental work in methods of treatment. The species studied have included the bean-leaf roller, corn delphax, sweetpotato prodenia, snowy chionaspis, fig scale, cassava scale, rust-red flour beetle, chinch bug, rubus white fly, ramie-leaf roller, Pyrameis cardui, fall army worm, southern grassworm, strawberry thrips, and