112 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The State has appropriated $50,000 per year for extension work 

 and a staff of 16 instructors is devoting its entire time to this class of 

 work, while 10 others devote to it from three to five months each 

 during the winter season. The extension work is so organized that 

 the extension men are connected with the departments responsible for 

 the information disseminated, while the head of the extension depart- 

 ment directs these men as to when and where they shall go. 



The publications received from this station during the year were as 

 follows: Bulletins 115, Results of Seed Investigations for 1908-9; 

 116, Two Barley Blights with Comparison of Species of Helmin- 

 thosporium upon Cereals; 117, The Iowa Silo; 118, Lacto: A New 

 and Healthful Frozen Dairy Product ; 119, The Gumbo Soils of Iowa ; 

 120, The Hardy Catalpa in Iowa; 121, Creamery Bookkeeping; 122 

 (with popular edition) , The AVlieat-head Army Worm as a Timothy 

 Pest; 123, Classification of Ice Cream and Related Frozen Products; 

 and 124, A Centrifugal Method for the Determination of Humus. 



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



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 15, 000. 00 



State appropriation 43,008.24 



Farm products 10,878.64 



Miscellaneous 864. 07 



Balance from previous year 6,255.66 



Total 91, 006. 01 



The Iowa Experiment Station and the agricultural people of the 

 State are drawing closer together every year. The station has a 

 large amount of work of interest to the agriculture of the State and 

 has made progress in the differentiation and organization of its exten- 

 sion enterprises. The generous appropriations from the State enable 

 it to cover a wide range. 



KANSAS. 



Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan. 



Department of Kansas State Agricultural College. 



E. H. Webster, B. Agr., M. S., Director. 



The work of the Kansas station was materially strengthened and 

 extended during the past year. In addition to an annual appropria- 

 tion of $22,500 for the use of the station the State appropriated 

 $7,500 for cooperative experiments, $2,000 for irrigation experiments, 

 and $5,000 for a soil survey. The last legislature also appropriated 

 $125,000 for the first wing of an agricultural building, to cost even- 

 tually about $450,000. This wing is now in the process of construc- 

 tion. A number of changes occurred in the staff during the year. 



