102 EEPOKT OF OFFICE OF EXPEEIMENT STATIONS. 



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



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $14, 824. 13 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 13,724.29 



Balance from United States appropriation, Hatch fund- 175. 87 



Balance from United States appropriation, Adams fund- 1, 275. 71 

 Farm products 1,056.18 



Total 31, 956. 18 



The Idaho station has made progress in its lines of work, under- 

 taken the study of a number of new and important problems, and 

 has, in general, increased its efficiency in meeting the needs of the 

 farmers of the State. 



ILLINOIS. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Illinois, Urbana. 



Department of the University of Illinois. 



Eugene Davenport, M. Agr., Director. 



The legislature of 1911 provided for special investigations by the 

 station by the following annual appropriations: Live stock, $25,000; 

 farm crops, $15,000; soils, $65,000; orchards, $15,000; floriculture, 

 $8,000; dairying, $15,000; and soil maps and other publications, 

 $50,000. In other appropriations of $19,000 for live-stock specimens, 

 $153,000 for buildings, and $20,000 for the purchase of land the sta- 

 tion is apparently interested with the college. 



Work on the five Adams fund projects in progress the previous 

 year was continued. The investigation of the effects of inbreeding 

 of pigs was interrupted by a loss of hogs, largely due to cholera, but 

 new material was again gathered for the continuance of the experi- 

 ments. 



In connection with the investigations on the digestion and utiliza- 

 tion of feeds in maintenance, growth, and fattening the tabulation 

 of a nutrition experiment with steers was practically completed and 

 a report on the experiment was in preparation. An experiment de- 

 signed to determine the influence of different amounts of protein 

 upon the formation of tissue and bone was carried through the feed- 

 ing and analj'tical stage, and work on the manuscript for a technical 

 bulletin on this study was pursued. A feeding experiment to deter- 

 mine the protein requirements of lambs was carried forward and 

 slaughter tests were made upon the 21 lambs of the experiment, to- 

 gether with cooking tests and tests on the strength of bone. 



In the project on the principles relating to the transmission of 

 characters work was conducted with sweet peas, strawberries, and 

 apples. With the apple over 540 trees are on hand, grown from 

 selected buds and being in their fourth season. In addition to this 



