88 REPOKT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation .$!;"), (KK). 00 



State appropriation for substations 3,500.00 



Fees 2,480.00 



Farm produrts 1, 718. .'51 



MiscellantH)us. including balance from previous j'ear 5, 021. 98 



Total 27, 720. 49 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 fund has lieen rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Dei^artment and has been approved. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of this station received during the past fiscal year 

 were Bulletins 213-224, Special Bulletins 26-31, and the Annual Re- 

 port for 1004. The bulletins were on the following subjects: Small 

 fruits for 1904 ; tomatoes and potatoes ; experiments with sugar beets 

 in 1903; insect enemies of fruits in Michigan, fungus diseases of 

 fruits in Michigan, spraying calendar; fertilizer analyses; some es- 

 sential soil changes produced by micro-organisms; soil moisture — its 

 importance and management; dried beet pulp and dried molasses- 

 beet pulp for fattening sheep; the care and handling of milk; the 

 codling moth in Michigan; equipment for breeding, feeding, care, 

 and management of swine, preliminary report on forage crops for 

 swine; observations on the influence of nodules on the roots upon the 

 composition of soy beans and cowpeas. The special bulletins were a 

 spraying calendar, report of the South Haven substation for 1903, 

 report of the Upi:)er Peninsula substation for the year 1903, addi- 

 tional work upon the associative action of bacteria in the souring of 

 milk and in other milk fermentations, report of South Haven sub- 

 station for 1904, and report of Upper Peninsula substation for 1904. 



MINNESOTA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota, 



St. Anthony Park, St. Paul 



Department of the University of Minnesota. 

 W. M. Liggett, Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The rotation experiments inaugurated in 1894 by the Minnesota 

 Station to determine the influence of crop rotation upon the fertility 

 of the soil and the yield of crops, have been carried through the first 

 period of twelve years, and the results are being prepared for publi- 



