84 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



INCOME, 



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



United States apjiropriation $ir), fXK). 00 



State appropriation 5, (HK». 00 



Farm i»ro(hu'ts 4, 582. 57 



Balance from previous year 1,01(5.09 



Total 25, 590. 2G 



A report of the recei])ts and e.xpendilure.s for the United States 

 fund has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Department and has been approved. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The i^ublications of this station received during the past fiscal j'ear 

 were Bulletins 94-99, and the Annual Report for li)04. The subjects 

 treated in the bulletins include systems of keeping milk and butter 

 records; the character of milk during the period of heat; sweet corn — 

 breeding, growing, and curing for seed ; the relative profits of selling 

 milk, cream, and butter: home-grown protein as a substitute for pur- 

 chased feeds and tests of soiling crops; and test of different spraying 

 materials for the control of San Jose scale. 



MASSACHUSETT 



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Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 



AiJilicrst. 



Department of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

 W. P. Brooks, Ph. D., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



Most of the work of the Massachusetts Station has been noted in 

 previous reports. In the department of agrononi}^ the field and pot 

 experiments have been continued. Soil and seed inoculation experi- 

 ments with legumes were tried in both pots and field with results 

 indicating that soil inoculation was more satisfactory. The ferti- 

 lizer experiments with asparagus, which are now in their third year, 

 are of considerable importance to asparagus growers, owing to the 

 fact that the production of this crop involves the use of large amounts 

 of fertilizer. In the department of foods and feeding stuffs there 

 has been a continuation of experiments with dairy cows, sheep, hor.ses, 

 forage crops, and investigations of chemical problems connected with 

 animal nutrition and dairying. The inspection work of this and 

 other departments has been continued as heretofore. The botanical 

 division has continued its work on electricity in relation to plant 

 growth, and has undertaken studies of the relative efficiency of sun- 



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