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ville will ijrobably 1k' postponed for a year in order to allow for 

 the construction of buildings. The retirement of the veterinarian 

 during the year will enable further concentration of the station's 

 work, and the decision to appoint a director separate from the office 

 of president will materially strengthen the station organization. 

 Prof. P. II. Rolfs, who has accepted the directorship, has entered upon 

 his duties. If the station's interests are fully conserved in moving 

 the laboratories and offices to Gainesville, as has been assured, its 

 outlook for increasing usefulness and efficiency seems very hopeful. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The prinicpal lines of work conducted at the Florida Station dur- 

 ing the past year were as follows: Chemistry — fertilizer investiga- 

 tions and studies of citrus fruits; field experiments — cassava, corn, 

 potatoes, and other farm crops; horticulture; diseases of plants; 

 feeding experiments with hogs, steers, horses, and mules; veterinary 

 science; entomology' — mealy bug and insect enemies of citrus fruits 

 and potatoes. 



INCOME. 



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

 follows : 



United States aiipropriation $15,000.00 



Farm products 2, 18:^. 14 



Total 17, 18:^.14 



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 70-78 and 80, on the following subjects: Pine- 

 apple culture, varieties; Japanese persimmons; feeding horses and 

 nmles on home-grown feed stuft's; the honey peach group; anthrac- 

 nose of the i)onielo; potato disease; insecticides and fungicides; 

 equine glanders and its eradication; forage crops, the silo; and the 

 composition of some of the concentrated feeding stuffs on sale in 

 Florida. 



