94 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



ciillurc ill lilt' history of tho university was graduated. A year of 

 iigi'ic'ulture in the high schools will now be accepted as part credit 

 for entrance to the university. This, it is thought, will stimulate the 

 ])utting of agriculture into the high schools, as credit can now be 

 given for it. The last legislature ajipropriated $55,000 for the col- 

 lege of agriculture and the experiment station for the biennial period. 

 Of this amount $15,000 is for the experiment station, $3,000 for 

 inaugurating a soil survey, $5,000 for a cattle barn, $2,000 for a swine 

 barn, and $5,000 for a laboratory building for farm machinery. 



The station is doing a large amount of excellent work in all lines. 

 Assistants have now been provided in all departments so that the 

 men need do only a small amount of teaching. The station stands 

 in very close relation to the farmers and has good support, as is 

 shown by its appropriation which Avas reduced only a few hundred 

 dollars below the estimates, whereas appropriations for all other de- 

 partments of the university were cut down materially. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted by the Missouri Station dur- 

 ing the past year were as follows: Chemistry — inspection of fertil- 

 izers, study of food adulterants and fungicides; soil survey; botany; 

 field experiments — cereal and forage crops, fertilizers, rotations, ren- 

 ovating worn-out soils; horticulture — experiments with apples, 

 plums, grapes, peaches, pears, small fruits and nuts, breeding ex- 

 periments with fruits, diseases of apples; animal breeding; feeding 

 experiments with beef cattle, sheep, and swine; diseases of animals; 

 entomology — study of ticks on cattle, parasites of sheep, insects af- 

 fecting fruits ; and dairying. 



INCOME. 



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



follows : 



United States appropriation $15,000.00 



State appropriation 3, 000. 00 



Fees 4,948.87 



Farm products 5, 073. 14 



Balance from previous year 110.86 



Total 28. 132. 87 



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 Bulletin 64, on the " sting " in the apple, and Bulletin 65, on 



