MAINE, 121 



Grow for Hogs, and Other Data; 125, The Bacterial Deterioration 

 of Sugars ; 126, Diseases of the Fig Tree and Fruit ; Fertilizer Re- 

 port, 1909-10; and Feed Stuffs Report, 1909-10. 



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

 follows : 



United States appropriation, Hatcli Act $15, 000. 00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 15, 000. 00 



State appropriation, including balance from previous 



year 24,857.32 



Individuals 250.51 



Fees 2,000.00 



Farm products, including balance from previous year 3, 763. 04 



Miscellaneous 1,734.15 



Total 62, 605. 02 



The Louisiana stations are studying numerous problems connected 

 with the various lines of agricultural industry of the State, and are 

 broadening their scope to meet the needs of a growing agriculture, 

 which in some of its branches is peculiar to the region. 



MAINE. 



Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono. 



Department of the University of Maine. 



C. D. Woods, Sc. D., Director. 



The principal change in the staff of the Maine station during the 

 year was the resignation of F. M. Surface, assistant biologist, to 

 accept a similar position in the Kentucky station. His place was 

 filled by the appointment of E. P. Humbert, who has resigned since 

 the close of the fiscal year to take up work in agronomy at the Xew 

 Mexico station. 



The work on the Adams fund projects at this station progressed 

 steadily and constituted a large part of the station work. The 

 study of potato scab was followed along the same general lines as 

 heretofore. The effect of different kinds of manure on the develop- 

 ment of the disease was studied and investigations regarding the 

 length of time the fungus is able to live in the soil were made. 

 Laboratory work on the blackleg of potatoes was continued, com- 

 parative studies of organisms from Canada and Germany being 

 made, and methods of treatment given trial. Some preliminary 

 work was done on the early blight of the potato. 



In the research work with poultry the system of breeding based 

 on the ability of the birds to transmit high-laying qualities to their 

 offspring rather than on performance alone continued to promise 

 good results. This year's work gave additional evidence that high- 

 laying ability is a characteristic of a certain few blood lines in the 



