90 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



for a dairy biiildiiifr and other minor farm equipment. The financial 

 management of the institution has also been put on a Ix'tter basis oy 

 the abolishment of the State board of control system inaugurated a 

 few years ago. In its investigations in coo])ei'ation uith this dei)urt- 

 ment on the cost of growing crops and on farm management this 

 station is a leader in the scientific, systematic study of the important 

 problems of farm economics now pressing for solution. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted at the Minnesota Station 

 during the past year were as follows: Chemistry of soils and farm 

 crops; fertilizers; field experiments — rotations, tests of varieties of 

 cereals and forage crops, time and depth of seeding grains and 

 amount of seed, methods of seeding grasses; horticulture — tests of 

 varieties of fruits and vegetables, use of wind-breaks, testing hardy 

 stocks for apple trees, improvement of native fruits; forestry; dis- 

 eases of plants; food and nutrition of man; plant and animal breed- 

 ing; feeding experiments; diseases of animals; entomology; dairying; 

 farm management, and farm statistics. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation .$1.5,000.00 



State appropriation, including substations 38,749.90 



Farm products, including substations 8,138.50 



Total 61, 888. 40 



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 87-91, and the Annual Report for 1903. The bul- 

 letins are on the following subjects : Potatoes at university' farm ; 

 injurious insects of 1904; soil investigations; heavy and light weight 

 grains, starchy and glutenous grains, light and dark colored flaxseed, 

 rusted wheat, and milling tests of wheat; and poultry culture in 

 Minnesota. 



