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investigation of soft rot of the same plants, study of Rliizoctonia as 

 a cause of plant diseases; feeding experiments; poultry experiments — 

 study of the etl'ect and value of different classes of nutrients in poul- 

 try feeding and of inbreeding and selection as affecting egg produc- 

 tion; entomology — biological study of the San Jose scale and the 

 development of a successful and convenient method for controlling 

 this insect, study of mites, currant fruit-worm, blackberry insects, 

 and poplar weevil ; dairying, and irrigation. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $1,500.00 



State appropriation (fiscal year ended October 1, 1905) _ 93,753.97 



Total 95, 253. 97 



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 248, 251, and 253-267, and the Annual Report for 1903. 

 The subjects treated in these bulletins are as follows: New York 

 apples in storage (with popular edition) ; vitality of the cabbage 

 black-rot germ on cabbage seed; report of analyses of commercial 

 fertilizers for the spring of 1904; fall spraying with sulphur washes 

 (with popular edition) ; inspection of feeding stuffs; seed selection 

 according to specific gravity; the composition of commercial soaps 

 in relation to spraying (with popular edition) ; a study of the chem- 

 istry of homemade cider vinegar (with popular edition) ; the propor- 

 tion of animal food in the ration for ducklings (with popular 

 edition) ; director's report for 1904; some of the relations of casein 

 and paracasein to bases and acids, and their application to Cheddar 

 cheese; sulphur washes for orchard treatment (with popular edition) ; 

 the })roteids of butter in relation to mottled butter (with ]M)pular 

 edition) ; potato spraying experiments in 1904 (with popular edi- 

 tion) ; plant-food constituents used by bearing fruit trees, tabulated 

 analyses showing amounts of plant-food constituents in fruits, vege- 

 tables, etc.; report of analyses of samples of fertilizers collected by 

 the commissioner of agriculture during the summer and fall of 1904; 

 effect of certain arsenites on potato foliage (with popular edition). 



