120 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



ec'onoinioallv administored, and i(s outlook is very cncourairiiia:. It 

 is iiiaUiii«5 a strong iiupiTssioii on the fanners and now has their cor- 

 dial support and confidence. 



LINES OF WORK. 



Th(» principal lines of work conducted at Ili(> Oklahoma Station 

 during the j)ast year were as follows: Chemistry; lield experiments — 

 cereals, j)asture and forage crops, continuous cropping, rotation ex- 

 periments, ])()tat',)es, improvement of Kafir corn, castor bean, and 

 cotton; horticulture — orchanl and small fruits and vegetables, and 

 breeding currants; forestry; diseases of plants; botany; bacteri- 

 ology : animal husbandry — feeding experiments, breeding up dairy 

 herd ; diseases of animals — blackleg, parasites, dips, and loco dis- 

 eases; and entomology — Hessian fly, cotton boU-w'eevil, and melon 

 louse. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15,000.00 



State appropriation 1,421.65 



Miscellaneous, inclding balance from previous year 2, 8.'{7. 98 



Total li), 2,-)9. G3 



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 G4, on destroying insects and fungus diseases, and the 

 Annual Report for 1904, which is a summary statement by the 

 director of the work and expenditures of the station during the year, 

 to which are added reprints of some of the press bulletins issued 

 during the year. 



OREGON. 



Oregon Experiment Station, Corvallis. 



Department of Oregon State Agricultural College. 



James Withycombe, M. Agr., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Oregon Station has published the results of experiments with 

 poultry under confinement, and of studies of the digestibility of vetch 

 hay and corn silage. The other work of the station has been con- 



