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borer, and prepared reports on these different lines of work. Tests 

 were also made of spray nozzles, and work on devising new forms of 

 nozzles was pursued. 



The following publications were received from this station during 

 the year : Bulletins 206, Commercial Fertilizers ; 207, The Control of 

 the Argentine Ant; 208, The Late Blight of Celery; 209, The Cream 

 Supply; 210, Imperial Valley Settlers' Crop Manual; 211, How to 

 Increase the Yield of Wheat in California ; Circulars 52, Information 

 for Students Concerning the College of Agriculture of the University 

 of California; 53, Announcement of Farmers' Short Courses for 

 1910; 54, Some Creamery Problems and Tests; 55, Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes and University Extension in Agriculture; 56, Worthless Fer- 

 tilizers; 57, Announcement of Farmers' Short Courses in Animal 

 Industry and Veterinary Science at the University Farm, Davis, Cali- 

 fornia; 58, Experiments with Plants and Soils in Laboratory, Gar- 

 den, and Field ; and 59, Tree Growing in the Public Schools. 



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

 follows : 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $15, 000 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 15,000 



State appropriation 69, 750 



Sales 1, 000 



Miscellaneous 12, 500 



Fees 10, 000 



Total 123, 250 



The California station carries on a relatively large amount of work, 

 with the aid of State appropriations, and is covering more fully than 

 heretofore the various agricultural regions and industries of the State. 



COLORADO. 



Agricultural Experiment Station, Fort Collins. 



Department of the State Agricultural College of Colorado. 



C. P. Gillette, M. S., Director. 



Improvements at the Colorado station during the year comprised 

 a material increase in equipment for irrigation investigations, work 

 with poultry, and feeding experiments with cattle and swine. For 

 the current biennium the State legislature appropriated for experi- 

 mental and extension work a total of $45,000, divided as follows: 

 Animal husbandry, $7,500; fruit investigations, $6,000; agronomy, 

 $5,000; potato investigations, $5,500; poultry investigations, $5,000; 

 horse breeding, $5,000 ; dry-farming investigations, $3,500 ; irrigation 

 and drainage, $5,000; and veterinary work, $2,500. During the year 

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