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ing and improving native fruits, spraying, and cold storage of 

 fruit; plant breeding — with wheat, corn, cowpeas, and other crops; 

 field experiments — growing drought-resistant crops, cultural and 

 variety tests of grasses and numerous other crops; feeding and diges- 

 tion experiments — steers, heifers, dairy cows, calves, swine, and 

 sheep: poultry experiments; diseases of animals; entomology'; dai- 

 rying; irrigation, and extermination of prairie dogs and gophers. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15,000.00 



State appropriation for substations 7,650.00 



Farm products 3,418.75 



Balance from previous year 847.30 



Total 26,916.05 



A report of the receij)ts 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 124-128 and the Annual Report for 1904. The bulle- 

 tins are on the following subjects : Experiments in feeding steers and 

 in breeding and feeding pigs, experiments with dairy cows, experi- 

 ments with hand-fed calves, the roots of plants, and experiments at 

 Fort Hays branch station, 1902-1904. 



KENTUCKY. 



Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington. 



Department of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. 



M. A. ScovELL, M. S., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Kentucky Station has closed its three years' experiments in 

 raising Burley tobacco under shade with results indicating that the 

 effect of shade is to produce a tobacco of finer texture, with little 

 expense for cultivation and none for worming, and to increase the 

 value from about 10 cents to about 25 cents a pound, but that the yield 

 of tobacco under shade is less and the expense of shelter is too great to 

 recommend this method of raising tobacco. Experiments have also 

 been conducted in growing tobacco in the shade of growing corn 

 (PI. IV, fig. 1). An experiment in feeding dairy cows varying quan- 

 tities of roughage shows that cow^s fed all they will eat of roughage 



