138 REPORT or oirit'K oi' experiment stations. 



LINES OF WOHK. 



Tlu> principal lines of work conduotod at the Utah Station during 

 the past year wore as follows: Chemistry — soils, feeding stuti's, sugar 

 heets; alkali soil investigations — reclamation of alkali soils; meteor- 

 ology; iield experiments — rotations, testing varieties of cereals, sugar 

 heets, and garden vegetables, and arid farming; horticulture; dis- 

 eases of plants; cattle and sheej) breeding; feeding experiments — 

 cattle, sheep, horses; dairying; })()ultry experiments; entomology; 

 irrigation — seepage investigations and water reciuirements of plants 

 and soils. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation ipi.'*, 000. 00 



Farm products 1, 05G. 27 



Balance from previous year 79. 16 



Total 10,635.43 



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 88-91 and the Annual Report for 1903. The subjects 

 of the bulletins are as follows: The relation of smelter smoke to Utah 

 agriculture, a new centrifugal soil elutriator, feeding beet molasses 

 and pulp to sheep and steers, and arid farming in Utah. There were 

 also several circulars on plans for arid farming investigations and 

 for irrigation investigations. 



VERMONT, 



Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington. 

 Department of University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. 



J. L. Hills, Sc. D., Director. 

 GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



Few changes of importance have been made during the past year 

 in the work of the Vermont Station. The results of feeding trials 

 extending over seven years have been summarized and the study of 

 soft rots of vegetables, in cooperation with the New York State Sta- 

 tion, have been closed. The station is making a considerable feature 

 of studies of potato diseases. Thorough botanical and bacteriological 



