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age and other feeds for swine, feeding dairy cows, extensive feeding 

 experiments with beef cattle; diseases of phmts and animals- 

 studies of diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs, treatment of oats and 

 wheat for smut, study of edible fungi, and rusts of sedges; breeding 

 bacon hogs; dairying, and entomology. 



INCOME. 



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

 follows : 



United States appropriation .$15,000.00 



Miscellaneous 10, 828. 05 



Balance from previous year 1,052.7.3 



Total 26, 880. 78 



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 100-106 and the Annual Report for 1904. The bulle- 

 tins are on the following subjects: Diseases of sw^ne, alfalfa in 

 Indiana, apple growing in Indiana, rapid method of removing smut 

 from seed oats, a simple alkali test for ripeness of cream, corn im- 

 provement in Indiana, and commercial fertilizers. 



IOWA. 



Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames. 



Department of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



C. F. CuRTiss, M. S. A., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Iowa Station has published during the past year the results 

 of a series of extensive feeding experiments at Brookmont Farm, in 

 which, among other things, a comparison of light, medium, and 

 heav}^ grain rations for steers showed greater economy of meat jDro- 

 duction for the light ration, but greater profit for the heavy ration, 

 owing to the better market condition of the steers and the higher 

 prices they commanded. In another feeding experiment with grade 

 steers of the Hereford and Angus breeds, representing the beef type, 

 and grade steers of the Holstein and Jersey breeds, representing the 

 dairy type, it was found that there was comparatively little differ- 

 ence in economy of gains made, but that there was a marked diJffer- 



