l'J2 RlCroKT OF OFFICE OF EXPEKIMKNT STATIONS. 



LINES OK W((I{K. 



Tlie j)rinci])iil lines of work condiieUMl iit the v)r('<jon Station during 

 the past year were as follows: Chemistry — analytical work, investiga- 

 tions with silage, waste products for fertilizers, plant food in soils, 

 physics of soils, experiments in drying hops, study of protein in 

 vetch hay; bacteriology — flax retting, micro-organisms of stable ma- 

 nure; soils; field crops — rotations, variety tests of cereals, grasses 

 and other forage crops, hops, fertilizer tests; horticulture; diseases 

 of plants; digestion and feeding exiKM'iments with dairy cows and 

 swine, including soiling experiments with l)()th; poidtry experiments: 

 entomology; dairying, including inv^estigations on the curing of 

 cheese; and irrigation. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation. $15,000.00 



Farm products, including balance from previous year l.nuj. 27 



Total 10, 51G. 27 



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. 



PriU.ICATIONS. 



The publications of this station received during the past fiscal year 

 %vere Bulletins 81-86 and the Annual Reports for 1903 and 1904. 

 The bulletins are on the apple in Oregon, the perpetuation of pure 

 cultures foi- butter starters, poultry under confinement, digestibility 

 of vetch hav and corn silage, and irrigation in Klamath County. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



The Pennsylvania State College Agricultural Experiment Station, State 



Vollri/c. 



Department of the Pennsylvania State College. 



II. P. Armsby. Ph. I).. LL. D.. Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The work of the Pennsylvania Station was continued along the 

 same general lines as heretofore. The chemist has prepared a scheme 

 for a very simple soil test with fertilizers to enable farmers to deter- 

 mine for themselves the approximate fertilizer needs of their land. 

 The results of the station fertilizer tests continue to show that phos- 



