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ent fruit-insect pests by spraying. Some work was begun in breed- 

 ing grasshoppers to determine the laws and principles of heredity as 

 applied to them. 



The milling investigations embraced studies of the changes taking 

 place in wheat from the time of ripening in the field until it has gone 

 through the sweat. Milling and baking tests were made of the wheat, 

 and the factors influencing the milling quality of flour were con- 

 sidered. 



The publications received from this station during the year were as 

 follows : Bulletins 168, The Common Mole ; 169, Fertilizers and Their 

 Use; ITO, Breeding for Type of Kernel in Wheat; 171, Studies on 

 Hog Cholera and Preventive Treatment; 172, The Pocket Gopher; 

 173, Meningo-encephalitis ; 174, Spraying the Apple Orchard; Cir- 

 culars 9, Eabies — Hydrophobia ; 10, Provisions of the State Forest 

 Law; 11, The Relation of Size, Weight, and Density of Kernel to 

 Germination of Wheat; 12, Treatment of Seed Wheat for Smut; 

 13, How to Grow Black Walnuts; 14, Contagious Abortion; 15, 

 Spraying Apples; 16, Burning Chinch Bugs; and 17, Protecting 

 Trees from Rabbits; and Feeding Stuffs Bulletins 10-16, Registered 

 Feeding Stuffs. 



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 appropriations, including those for substations 15, 000. 00 



Fees 7,732.69 



Farm products 1, 323. 59 



Miscellaneous 13. 683. 77 



Balance from previous year 1,593.98 



Total 69,334.03 



As a result of support from the State the work of the Kansas sta- 

 tion has been materially strengthened and a greater amount than 

 formerly has been made possible. Many of the new lines of endeavor 

 have been important in carrying the work of the station to the farmer. 



KENTUCKY. 



Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington. 



Department of the State University. 



M. A. ScovELL, M. S., Ph. D., Director. 



The staff of the Kentucky station was strengthened during the year 

 by the addition of several men who devote their time almost entirely 

 to research work. F. M. Surface was appointed biologist in animal 

 husbandry, R. Graham, veterinarian and in charge of serum produc- 

 tion, and L. S. Corbett, H. H. Jewett, and H. R. Niswonger, assistants 

 in animal husbandry, research entomology, and nursery inspection, 



