84 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The following publications were received from this station during 

 the year: Bulletins 156, Butter Making — Clean Milk and Commer- 

 cial Starters; 157, Arsenical Poisoning of Fruit Trees; 158, A Bac- 

 terial Disease of Alfalfa ; 159, A New Alfalfa Disease — Stem Blight; 

 160, Nitrates in the Soil; 161, Cement and Concrete Fence Posts; 

 162, Rabies; 163, Farm Butter Making; 164, Poultry Raising; 165, 

 Ration Experiments with Swine, 1906-1908; 166, Information Con- 

 cerning the Colorado Carriage Horse-breeding Station ; 167, Life and 

 Care of Farm Machinery in Colorado; 175, The Potato Industry of 

 Colorado — Potato Insects; 176, Productiveness and Degeneracy of 

 the Irish Potato; Circulars 7, Milo; 8, Growing Potatoes in Colo- 

 rado; 9, Growing Broom Corn in Colorado; and the Annual Report 

 for 1909. 



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



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $14,755.58 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 13,882.71 



Balance from United States appropriation, Hatcli fund_ 244. 42 



Balance from United States appropriation, Adams fuud_ 1, 117. 29 



Balance from previous year. State appropriation 21, 294. 81 



Miscellaneous 2.3. 129. 61 



Total 74,424.42 



The Colorado station has in progress a large amount of valuable 

 work, with a view to solving certain problems of greni significance to 

 practical farmers and of much scientific interest. 



CONNECTICUT. 



The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Netc Haven. 

 E. H. Jenkins, Ph. D., Director. 



The Connecticut station in January, 1911, acquired a tract of 20 

 acres of land and began putting it into shape for plat work. The 

 ]^d was cleared and fenced, a small peach and apple orchard was 

 planted, and an experiment on soil treatment was begim. A part of 

 the tobacco work and nearly all of the work with corn was conducted 

 on this tract. 



The legislature of 1911 made the same regular appropriations to 

 the station as for the preceding biennial period. These include 

 $10,000 for general support, $2,500 a year for food work, and $3,000 

 a year for the State entomologist. A special appropriation of $10,000 

 was made for combating the gipsy moth if necessity for this should 

 arise and $6,500 was allowed to meet the fire loss on the laboratory 

 building two years ago. 



Under the Adams fund the study on the nutritive effect and value 

 of vegetable proteids was continued with the assistance of the grant 

 for this work from the Carnegie Institution. Considerable difference 



