lis REPORT or OPFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



LINKS Ol' WOIMv. 



The ])riiu-ipiil lines of work coiuluctcd at tho Ohio Station (hiring 

 the past year were as follows: Soils; field experiments — fertilizer 

 and rotation experiments with corn, oats, wheat, })otatoes, tobacco, 

 and leguminous crops, variety tests of cereals, and experiments .with 

 cover crops; horticulture — growing vegetables under cheese cloth, 

 forcing tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, and muskmelons, variety tests 

 of vegetables and fruits, orchard management, and forestry; plant 

 breeding and selection — corn and Avheat; diseases of plants — rhizoc- 

 tonia in potatoes, onion smut, grape rot, diseases of ginseng and to- 

 bacco, plant disease survey; feeding experiments with cattle, and 

 entomology'. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15,000.00 



State appropriation, including balance from previous 



year 52, 470. 16 



Fees 131. 75 



Farm products 5,127.52 



Miscellaneous, including balance from previous year 5, 375. 24 



Total 78, 104. 67 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 fund has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Dei^artment and has been approved. 



rUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of this station received during the past fiscal year 

 were Bulletins 148, 150, 151, 154, 15G-161. The subjects of the bulle- 

 tins were as follows: Peach diseases; Ohio soil studies; proceedings 

 of the second annual reunion of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, 

 the College of Agriculture of the Ohio State University, the farmers' 

 institute lecturers of Ohio, and the Ohio Agricultural Experiment 

 Station; varieties of strawberries; tobacco diseases and tobacco breed- 

 ing; winterkilling of peach trees; forestry investigations; the main- 

 tenance of fertility, liming the soil; the codling moth; and experi- 

 ments with fertilizers on tobacco. 



