13'J KEruuT ur office of experiment stations. 



INCOME. 



Tlu' iiR'oint* of tho station during' the past fiscal year was as follows: 



United States ai>proi)riation $15,(KK).()0 



State appropriatiun 1, 0(X). (X) 



Miscellaneous 3, 140. 73 



Total 10,140.73 



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 received from this station during the past fiscal 

 year were Bulletins 83-91 and the Annual Report for 1904. The 

 following are the subjects of the bulletins: Millet for fattening, 

 swine, report of investigations at the Highmore Station for 1903, 

 early garden peas, fattening range lambs, the western sand cherry, 

 breeding hardy fruits, preliminary experiments with A'apor treat- 

 ments for the prevention of the stinking smut of wheat, tankage 

 and other by-products for pigs and shrunken wheat for swine, and 

 cooperative tests in 1904 of peas, beans, sweet corn, and cabbage. 



TENNESSEE. 



Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Knoxville. 



Department of the University of Tennessee. 



H. A. Morgan, B. S. A., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The president of the University of Tennessee, the director of the 

 station, the assistant agriculturist, and the assistant for plat work 

 all resigned September 1, 1904, to accept similar positions elsewhere, 

 and consequently much time was spent during the year in reorganiz- 

 ing. The new president entered upon his duties September 1, 1904, 

 but the office of director remained vacant until January 1, 1905. 

 ISIeanwhile the president acted as director of the station. The Avork 

 in agronomy has been put in charge of the chemist, who has an 

 assistant to look after the details of the plat work. Xew work with 

 field crops has been started to test varieties of corn, cereals, and 

 other crops for this locality, and the fertilizers best adapted to them ; 

 experiments in rotation of crops, with special reference to the use 

 of fertilizers and stable manure under different conditions; experi- 

 ments with green manuring for worn ux)lands and wdth phosphates 



