44 REPORT OF OFFICE OP EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted at the Alabama Station 

 during the past year were as follows: Chemistry of fertilizers and 

 farm crops, and methods of clarifying cane sirup ;^ botany — grasses, 

 native trees, and varieties of cotton; soils — renovation with ma- 

 nures and leguminous plants, inoculation experiments; analysis of 

 fertilizers and food materials; field and jjot experiments — fertil^ 

 izers, leguminous plants as soil renovators, barnyard manures, cereals, 

 cotton, forage crops, and vegetables; horticulture — varieties of straw-, 

 berries and other fruits and asparagus, irrigation of garden vegeta- 

 bles; plant breeding — cotton, cowpeas, and corn; diseases of plants; 

 feeding and pasturing experiments with beef and dairy animals and 

 hogs ; diseases of animals ; and dairying. 



INCOME. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows : 



United States appropriation $15,000.00 



Fees G, 073. 24 



Farm products 382.07 



Miscellaneous 2, 080. 08 



Total 23,535.99 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 fund has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Department and has been approved. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of this station received during the past fiscal year 

 were Bulletins 128-130 and 132 and the Annual Report for 1904. 

 The bulletins are on the following subjects: Feeding and grazing 

 experiments Avith beef cattle; the Mexican cotton-boll weevil; tests 

 of varieties of cotton in 1904; diseases of the apple, cherry, peach, 

 pear, and plum, with methods of treatment. 



Canebrake Agricultural Experiment Station, Uniontown. 



J. F. DuGGAB, M. S., Director, Auburn; J. M. Riciieson, M. S., Assistant Di- 

 rector, Uniontown. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



For three years the Canebrake Station has been conducting experi- 

 ments to determine whether the soils of that region are deficient in 

 humus or in nitrogen. The results thus far indicate a lack of 

 nitrogen. Corn and other crops following legume stubble plowed 



