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of analyzing feeding stuffs, etc.; meteorolog}' ; field experiments — 

 variety tests of wheat and oats for difl'erent altitudes; breeding 

 experiments; horticulture — diseases of plants, forestry; animal hus- 

 bandry — breeding and feeding experiments with horses and cattle; 

 entomology — study of the relation of honeybees to the spread of pear 

 blight, studies of grasshoppers, various borers and leaf rollers, cut- 

 worms, and insects working on sugar beets and cantaloupes; irriga- 

 tion — use of water, measurements of losses from ditches, studies of 

 means for economizing water, measurements of seepage on the Platte, 

 the Arkansas, the Rio Grande, and their tributaries. 



INCOME. 



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

 follows : 



United States appropriation $15,000.00 



Miscellaneous, includiuj? balance from previous year — 9G7. 75 



Total 15,967.75 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 fund has been rendered in aecordance 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 87-99 and 101, and the Annual Keport for 1904. 

 Bulletins 87-99 are a contribution to the studies of the great plains 

 of Colorado, which have been carried on for a number of years by 

 the station, and include notes on cattle raising, dairying, and wheat 

 raising on the plains, and the growth of alfalfa without irrigation 

 on the ui)lands. The other bulletins include the following sul)jects: 

 Potato failures; large potato vines and no potatoes; digestion exi^eri- 

 ments with some Colorado hays and fodders; report of the entomolo- 

 gist; early cantaloupes; the shade trees of Denver; feeding steers on 

 sugar-beet pulp, alfalfa hay, and farm grains; beet worms and their 

 remedies; how can we maintain the fertility of our Colorado soils; 

 the western cricket. 



CONNECTICUT. 

 The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Xetr Haven. 



KuwAiU) 11. .Ik.nkins, I'b. D., Director. 

 OKNERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Connecticut State Station has recently undertaken breeding 

 and selection experiments for the improvement of corn — the flint 

 varieties being raised chiefly for ears or shelled corn, the dent 



