130 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Dairy Cows; 29, The Chemical Analysis of Soils; and the Annnal 

 Eeports for 1909 and 1910, parts 1 and 2. 



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

 follows : 



Uuited States appropriation. Hatch Act $15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 15, 0(X). 00 



State appropriiition. including balance from previous 



year 17, 698. 48 



IndiAiduals 25.00 



Fees 6, 239. 83 



Farm products 2, 068. 85 



Miscellaneous 9, 601. 69 



Total 65, 633. 85 



The Massachusetts station is doing a large amount of useful, scien- 

 tific, and practical work. Its field is constantly widening, and the 

 more complete organization of the extension department of the 

 college can not fail to be of great assistance to the station in relieving 



it of extension duties. 



MICHIGAN. 



Experiment Station of Michigan State Agricultural College, East Lansing. 



Department of Michigan State Agricultural College. 



R. S. Shaw, B. S. A., Director. 



The staff of the Michigan station was enlarged during the year by 

 the creation of several new positions. These new places were filled 

 by the appointment of W. H. Brown as plant physiologist, G. H. 

 Coons as plant pathologist, and George Bouyoucos as research assist- 

 ant in the division of soils. Some rearrangement was also made in 

 the veterinary department of the station, W. S. Bobbins assuming 

 the duties for which W. G. Giltner was formerly responsible. Beyond 

 this the station force remained intact and manifested a degi-ee of 

 permanency. A tract of land containing 600 acres and adjoining 

 the Upper Peninsula station at Chatham was donated to the station 

 by the Cleveland Cliff Iron Co. It is proposed to establish on this 

 land a model demonstration farm for the Upper Peninsula, which 

 possesses different environmental conditions than the other portion of 

 the State. A soil house was constructed at the main station during 

 the past year for the purpose of serving field projects under the 

 Adams fund, and a piggerj' was constructed to foster the preparation 

 of hog-cholera serum. 



Work on the several Adams fund projects in hand was continued, 

 and some of the results were published during the year. In the study 

 of the keeping qualities of butter the efforts were centered mainly 

 upon pasteurization and ripening as compared with nonpasteurization 

 and nonripening in lessening the deterioration of butter in storage. 



