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feeding oxj)orimcnts. Tho dopartnioiit of clifMiiislry is invest iijating 

 condiinontal stock foods, studying protoids of milk, iiu liiods of esti- 

 inatin<r l)iittor fat. and croaniorv sowa^o. The latter work is eoop- 

 oration with the dairy dei)artnient. The department of horticulture 

 is closing up the old experiments on the imi)rovonient of native jilums 

 and apples, and starting systematic breedinjt>: work Avith these fruits. 

 Tho tobacco investigations are being continued with Stat.^ funds, as 

 are also the cranberry investigations, in which this Office cooperates. 

 The extensive cereal investigations are conducted partly in coopera- 

 tion with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department and partly 

 with the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Association, with which 

 the station is also cooperating in a number of other lines. 



A number of additions have been made to the staff of the station 

 during the past year, including an assistant to the director, who will 

 serve as editor of station publications and also undertake investiga- 

 tions in animal nutrition, and assistants in horticulture and soils. 



The Wisconsin Station, while maintaining the high standard of its 

 work in animal husbandry and dairying, with which it lias leen so 

 prominently identified in past years, has in recent years developed 

 especially along the lines of agronomy, agricultural engineering, and 

 horse breeding in a way that keeps it fuUy in touch with modern 

 progress in these important directions, and make it increasingly 

 helpful to the agriculture of the State. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted at the Wisconsin Station 

 during the past year were as follows: Chemistry — studies of condi- 

 mental feeds, proteids in milk, and organic matter of drying plants; 

 bacteriology — studies of nodules of legumes, soil bacteria, pasteuriza- 

 tion, and yeasts in cheese; soils — pot and field experiments with 

 muck; field experiments — cereals, forage crops, and soil renova- 

 tion ; horticulture — studies of seedling apples and plums, breeding of 

 native plums and api^les, experiments with strawberries, cranberries, 

 tomatoes, and tobacco; horse breeding; feeding experiments — horses, 

 cattle, sheep, and swine; dairying — Swiss cheese manufacture, and 

 creamery sewage disposal, experiments with skim milk, condensed 

 milk, and cream; irrigation; drainage; and agricultural engineer- 

 ing — stable ventilation. 



INCOME. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as fol- 

 lows: 



United States? appropriation .$1.5,000.00 



State appropriation 18, .500. 00 



Fees 1,975.00 



Total 35,475.00 



