86 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



A report of the receipts and oxpeiulitures for the United States 

 fund has been rendered in :u(t)r(hince 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 1)7-102, Technical Bulletin 2, Meteorological Bulletins 

 18G-197, and the Annual Reports for 1903 and 1904. Bulletins 100 

 and 102 are concerned with the analyses of fertilizers and Bulletins 

 98 and 101 with concentrated feeds. The other two bulletins are on 

 a farm wood lot, dried molasses-beet pulp, and the nutrition of horses. 

 The technical bulletin treats of the graft union. 



MICHIGAN. 



Experiment Station of Michigan State Agricultural College, Agricultural 



CoUege.a 



Department of Michigan State Agricultural College. 



C. D. Smith, M. S., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The work of the Michigan Station during the past fiscal year has 

 not differed materially from that outlined in the last report of this 

 Office. In animal husbandry some new experiments have been started, 

 notably in raising calves from cows of the beef type, to compare 

 economy of production with (1) calves fed skim milk v. calves run- 

 ning with the dams and (2) calves from pure-bred sires i\ calves 

 from scrub sires. Experiments with grade dairy cows have been 

 resumed. A new feeding experiment has for its purpose the securing 

 of data concerning the economy of feeding whole grain as compared 

 with ground feed when the cost of grinding is taken into account. 

 There is considerable other work in feeding, including a study of 

 economical rations for wintering horses not at w^ork. 



The work in agronomy is extensive, and includes many experi- 

 ments with legumes, breeding wheat, study of the influence of differ- 

 ent soils on the quality of w^heat, and studies of the effect of nitro- 

 cultures on alfalfa and soy beans in cooperation with the bacteriolo- 

 gist. Some of the varieties of wheat developed at the station are 

 now being distributed. In cooperation with the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry of this Department the station is testing varieties of corn, 

 alfalfa seed from different sources, and varieties of soy beans, and 

 growing sugar-beet seed and flax. The field work at the Upper 

 Peninsula substation has been continued wdth State funds, and 

 $9,000 has been appropriated for buildings there. 



a Freight and express address, Lansing. 



