142 KEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



INCOME. 



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



luiU'il States ui.)i)rui»ricilioii ."j! 1 T), (MX). (XJ 



Miscelhuieou.s .'j.'j. 47 



Total 15, 0.'55.47 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 fluid 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 i:>ast fiscal year 

 were Bulletins 143 and 148-153, and the Annual Report for 1904. 

 Bulletin 143 belongs to the series of orchard studies, and treats of 

 the composition of apples. The other bulletins are on hay substi- 

 tutes, cowpeas and soy beans, the composition of cider as determined 

 by dominant fermentation with pure yeasts, apple production in 

 Virginia, experiments with caustic soda and some patent washes 

 against the San Jose scale, and the horn fly. 



WASHINGTON. 



"Washington Agricultural Experiment Station, Pullman. 

 Department of State College of Washington. 

 E. A. Bryan, M. A., LL. D., Director. 

 GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The work of the Washington Station has been continued along well- 

 established lines. Special attention has been given to animal hus- 

 bandry, including feeding experiments with cattle and sheep, in 

 which all feeds were grown on the station farm. A farm of 120 acres 

 has been rented for this work and a cereal specialist has been 

 appointed to have charge of it. He now has over 2,000 varieties, 

 hybrids, and selections under observation. The rotation, seeding, and 

 cultural experiments with wheat as the main crop have been carried 

 on seven years and results are about ready for publication. Experi- 

 ments for the control of the wild oat pest by cultural methods are 

 under way, and a series of cooperative experiments with farmers in 

 soil management have been inaugurated. The cereal and forage in- 

 vestigations are continued in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry of this Department, and the irrigation work in cooperation 

 with this Office. The department of botany and entomology pub- 

 lished four bulletins during the year on diseases and insect pests of 



