82 REPORT OK OFFK'K OF KXPKUIMENT STATIONS. 



INCOME, 



"^riic iiK'omo of the station <liiriii<r the past fiscal year was as follows: 



riiitcd states ii|)|)rui)riatioii ^IT), Ooo. fK) 



Stale aitpropriatioii 1, 5(H). (KJ 



Fees .' 3,755.00 



Farm products . 1, 7G0. 52 



Balance from previous year 54.07 



Total 22,009.59 



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 104-115, on the following subjects: A study of recip- 

 rocal crosses; fertilizer inspection; soy beans in Maine, feeding 

 experiments with cows, alfalfa; home-mixed fertilizers; brown-tail 

 moth and other orchard moths; apple maggot and other insects; 

 digestion experiments with sheep and steers; finances, meteorology, 

 index; potato experiments in 1904; summary of experiments in 

 practical horticulture, red clover from various sources; and feeding- 

 stuff inspection. 



MARYLAND. 



Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, College Park. 

 Department of Maryland Agricultural College. 

 H. J. Patterson, B. S., Director. 

 GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



During the past fiscal year the Maryland Station has enlarged 

 its operations considerably by undertaking additional investigations 

 in cooperation with this Department. It is now cooperating with the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry in breeding experiments with wdieat, oats, 

 barley, and rye, in growing forage crops, and in selecting and breed- 

 ing tobacco; w^ith the Bureau of Entomology in spraying experiments 

 for scale insects; with the Bureau of Animal Industry in experiments 

 with milch goats, and with the Bureau of Chemistry in investiga- 

 tions on the sugar content of sweet corn. Both the departments of 

 chemistry and agronomy are giving much attention to corn breeding 

 for the purpose of obtaining varieties of sweet corn wdiich will better 

 fill the demands of the markets, and of increasing the yield and the 

 protein content of field corn. The division of chemistry, in addition 

 to its work with sweet corn, has recently taken up a study of the 



