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have alone numbered 95G, the station bulletins and circulars 7,056, 

 and the publications of this department 4,488. The carefully pre- 

 pared author and subject indexes to the individual volumes and the 

 general index to Volumes I to XII have greatly enhanced the useful- 

 ness of the Record. Considerable progress was made during the year 

 in the preparation of a similar general index for Volumes XIII to 

 XXV. 



The office continued to supplement the Record by a bimonthly re- 

 view of progress in the more practical lines of investigation at the 

 experiment stations in the Experiment Station Work series of 

 Farmers' Bulletins. 



The proceedings of the American Association of Farmers' Insti- 

 tute "Workers were prepared and submitted for publication by the 

 department through the office. 



The office continued the publication of the card index of experi- 

 ment station literature. 



INCOME. 



The income of the office during the past fiscal year, derived wholly 

 from appropriations by Congress, was as follows : 



For the general expenses of the office $79,580.00 



For the Alaska experiment stations 28,000.00 



For the Hawaii Experiment Station 28,000.00 



For the Porto Rico Experiment Station 28,000.00 



For the Guam Experiment Station 15,000.00 



For investigations on agricultural schools and farmers' 



institutes 10, 000. 00 



For nutrition investigations 10,000.00 



For irrigation investigations 70,380.00 



For drainage investigations 78,860.00 



Total 347, 820. 00 



In addition to the above there was derived from the sale of 



agricultural products at the insular experiment stations the following 



amounts : 



Alaska experiment stations $2,661.41 



Hawaii Experiment Station 46.98 



Porto Rico Experiment Station 2,006.44 



Guam Experiment Station 12.33 



Total 4, 727. 16 



Total income 352,547.16 



