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of a local character. The problem of the purchase of a station farm 

 has resulted in an ag-itation that is not favorable to the institution as 

 now constituted, and until a decision is made the affairs of the sta- 

 tion will continue in a disturbed condition. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted at the California Station 

 durin«r the past year were as follows: Chemistry — foods, condimental 

 feeds, feedino^ stuffs, fertilizers, fruits, and insecticides; physics, 

 chemistry, and jj^eographical distribution of soils; bacteriology; fer- 

 tilizer control; field crops; horticulture, including date culture, viti- 

 culture, and zymology; sylviculture; botany; meteorology; animal 

 husbandry; entomology — scale insects, aphides, grasshoppers, and 

 other insects injurious to crops; dairying; irrigation and drainage; 

 reclamation of alkali lands; plant and animal patholog^^; nutrition 

 investigations, and poultry experiments. 



INCOME. 



The income of the otation during the past fiscal year Avasas follows: 

 T'uited states appropriation $15,000 



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 receiA'^d during the past fiscal year 

 were Bulletins ir)7-lf)5 and the Annual Report for 1004, The bulle- 

 tins are on the following •subjects: Commercial fertilizers; Califor- 

 nia olive oil, its numufacture; contribution to the study of fermenta- 

 tion; the hop aphis: tuberculosis in fowls; commercial fertilizers; 

 pear scab; poultry feeding and proprietary feeds, and asj)aragus and 

 asparagus rust in California. Several circulars on asparagus-rust 

 investigation and silk culture were also issued. 



COLOIIADO. 



Agricultural Experiment Station, Furl fhllinK. 



DepurtiiK'Ut of the State Agricultural Collogo of Colorado. 



L. G. Cabpentkk. M. S.. Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



Irrigation, horticulture, chemistry, entomology, and animal breed- 

 ing and feeding continue to receive attention at the Colorado Station. 

 During the past year publications have been issued giving the results 



