50 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



INCOME. 



The income of tlio station (luriii*r llic past fiscal year wa?i as 

 follows: 



United States appropriation $15,000.00 



State appropriation 13, (iOS. 80 



Fees 127.00 



Farm products SOT. 56 



Miscelln noons 1 105. 85 



Total 29, 739. 27 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 fiind 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 Bulletin 48. on relation of weather to crops; Bulletin 4J), (m 

 cost of pumping for irrigation, and Bulletin 50, on steer-feeding 

 experiments, and the Annual Report for 1904. 



ARKANSAS. 



Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, FayetteviUe. 

 Department of the University of Arkansas. 



W. G. ViNCENHELLER, Director. 

 GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The experiments of the Arkansas Station relating to the toxic effect 

 of cotton-seed meal fed to swine have been continued by the veterina- 

 riaii with many variations, the effort being to find a way of utilizing 

 cotton-seed meal profitably in pork production. Numerous efforts 

 to remove the poison by fermenting the meal, making aqueous ex- 

 tracts of it, etc., have been made, but without marked success. The 

 veterinarian is continuing his studies of tuberculosis and vaccination 

 for hog cholera and swine plague, and is distributing blackleg vac- 

 cine. The horticulturist is carrying on experiments in the practical 

 treatment of diseases of orchards, experiments with grapes, onions, 

 potatoes, asparagus, rhubarb, and other truck crops. As a result of 

 his work celery growing has been established in the State and is 

 increasing, methods of fruit growing have been improved, the grow- 

 ing of muskmelons has become quite an industr3% and the production 

 of peaches is increasing. The station is cooperating with the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry of this Department in growing Hungarian varie- 

 ties of apples, and with this Office in rice experiments under irriga- 

 tion at Lonoke. 



