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aiiJ pot experiments to determine the water requirements of plants 

 :ind nicthods of ujiplication. 



INCOME, 



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



United States appropriation $15,000.00 



State ai)propriatiou 0, 440. (!7 



Farm products 4, 581. 8G 



Total 20,022.53 



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 52-58 and the Annual Report for 1903, which gives 

 summary accounts of the operations in the different departments of 

 the station during the year. The bulletins are on the following 

 subjects: Sugar beets; creameries and cheese factories — organization, 

 building, and equipment; the alkali soils of Montana, and the 

 second annual report of the State entomologist. 



NEBRASKA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska, Lincoln. 



Department of the University of Nebraslva. 



E. A. Burnett. B. S., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The organization and main lines of work at the Nebraska Station 

 remain practically unchanged. As heretofore, i)rominence is given 

 to work in agronomy and animal husbandry. During the past fiscal 

 year the results of some important investigations have been pub- 

 lished. Among these were feeding exjieriments, the results of which 

 gave the following indications: That some feeding stults rich in 

 protein, such as oil meal, added in small quantity to a ration of corn 

 and prairie hay, lessen the amount of food recjuired for a given gain 

 and lessen the cost of gains under Nebraska conditions; that alfalfa 

 hay and corn make a satisfactory ration without a commercial pro- 

 tein feed; that when oil meal is fed in the grain ration cwrnstalks 

 make a satisfactory roughage. In an experiment comparing corn 

 with corn and oil meal fed to cattle on pasture the cost of gains 

 was 13 per cent greater where the corn alone was fed and indicated 

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