78 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



INCOME. 



The iiu'oiiR' of the station (liiriii<j; the jnxst fiscal year was as follows: 



United States appropriation $15, (KM). 00 



State aiiitroiiriation . 10, 4«)0. 70 



Balance from previous j-ear 3,82r>. ."JO 



Fees 18,040. :M) 



Farm products 5, 282. 55 



MiscclIaiHH)us 'S'2. 22 



Total 52,041.07 



A roport of the rocoipts and oxponditnres for the United States 

 fund has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Dei)artnieiit and has been approved. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of this station received during the past fiscal year 

 were Bulletins 113-116, on the following subjects: Protein content of 

 the Avheat kernel, insects injurious to cabbage, wheat, and an injury 

 to fruits by insects and birds, the apple-tree measuring woriy, the 

 Fall Beauty — a new apple. 



LOUISIANA. 



No. 1. Sugar Experiment Station, Audubon Park, ^eio Orleans. 



No. 2. State Experiment Station, Baton Rouge. 



No. 3. North Louisiana Experiment Station, Calhoun. 



Department of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical 



College. 



W. R. DoDSON, A. B., B. S., Director, Baton Rouge. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Louisiana stations are bringing to a close their investigations 

 extending over a number of years on the changes in cane juice and 

 its products in the process of manufacture. The results will throw 

 considerable light upon the best methods of handling the juice; the 

 influence of inaccuracy in the addition of clarifying agents; the 

 influence of the clarifying agent on the sugar, molasses, granulation, 

 etc., and of clarifying methods at dift'erent stages of maturity of the 

 cane. Studies of the chemistry and physiology of the cane plant 

 during all stages of growth are nearing completion. The rotation 

 experiments, extending over sixteen years, have been closed with 

 results of considerable value. The rotation which included cotton, 

 corn and cowpeas, oats, cowpeas, and cotton gave results indicating 

 that depleted soil can be fully restored without the addition of any 

 commercial fertilizers except phosphoric acid. It has also shown 

 that the crop of oats and cow peas was the most valuable crop in the 



