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to explain the exhibit and answer questions. This has been found 

 to be a very profitable form of extension work and better adapted 

 to the State than the instruction trains. 



The following publications were received from this station during 

 the year: Bulletins 166, The Management of Tobacco Seed Beds; 

 167, Inheritance in Maize; 168, Improvement in Corn; and the 

 Annual Eeport for 1909-10, parts 5, Fertilizers, 1910 ; 6, Food Prod- 

 ucts and Drugs, 1910; 7, Tests of Summer Sprays on Apples and 

 Peaches; 8, Commercial Feeding Stutfs, 1910; 9, Tenth Report of 

 the State Entomologist, 1910; 10, Report of the Station Botanist, 

 1909-10; and 11^ Report of the State Forester, 1910. 



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

 follows : 



United Slates appropriation, Hateli Act $7,500.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 7, 500. 00 



State appropriation 19, 650. 00 



Individuals 17,367.65 



Fees, including balance from previous year 11,217.95 



Farm products 87.79 



Miscellaneous 39.21 



Total 63, 362. 60 



The Connecticut station is pursuing a number of important lines 

 of investigation and is successfully meeting many of the needs of 

 the farmers of the State. 



Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, ^forrs. 



Department of the Connecticut Agricultural College. 

 L. A. Clinton, M. S., Director. 



No changes were made in the lines of work or in the persomiel of 

 the station during the past year. 



No new Imes of the Adams fund work were taken up, but the differ- 

 ent projects were actively carried forward. Considerable work was 

 done on the project in soil biology, special studies being made of 

 the bacteria in frozen soils, the bacterial content of soils as affected 

 by culture, grass-sod, and other conditions, and the relation of bac- 

 teria to the growth of alfalfa. Bacteria were found to be very 

 abundant in frozen soils. 



A second report was published during the year on the investiga- 

 tion of bacillary white diarrhea of young chicks carried on in coop- 

 eration with Dr. L. F. Rettger, of Yale University. This report 

 discussed the cause of the disease and the source of the germ, and 

 pointed out the progress made toward controlling and stamping 

 out the disease. 



