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New HamiDshire; 10, Breeding and Selection of Corn; 11, Horticul- 

 tural Information — How to Obtain It; 12, The Purchase and Home- 

 mixing of Fertilizers; and 13, A Few Notes on Lime for Agricul- 

 tural Purposes. 



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 



Miscellaneous 5,381.03 



Total! 35,381.03 



The work and affairs of the New Hampshire station are conducted 

 in a systematic manner. A progressive step has been made in the 

 recognition of college, station, and extension work as three distinct 

 lines of endeavor, and this taken with the increase of extension work 

 provided by a new appropriation will be of material benefit to the 

 station. 



NEW JERSEY. 

 New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station, l^eio Brunswick. 



At Rutgers College. f 



J. G. LiPMAN, Ph. D., Director. 



New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station, 'New Brunswick. 



Department of Rutgers College. 

 J. G. LiPMAN, Ph. D., Director. 



During the past year the New Jersey stations suffered the loss of 

 their director, Dr. E. B. Voorhees, who died Jime 6, 1911, and who 

 has since been succeeded by Dr. J. G. Lipman. After the close of the 

 3^ear, A. W. Blair of the Florida station was appointed associate 

 chemist to aid in investigations in soil chemistry, and H. R. Lewis 

 was placed in charge of the newly established poultry department. 

 Several changes in assistants were also made during the year. 



The State legislature at its last session appropriated $15,000 for 

 buildings and equipment, and $3,000 annually for maintenance of 

 a poultry department. Rapid progress was made during the j^ear in 

 erecting poultry structures and in organizing experimental work. 

 The legislature also appropriated $20,000, of which $11,000 was 

 made immediately available for buildings and equipment and $3,000 

 annually for maintenance of experiments in floriculture. The sta- 

 tions also profited by an annual appropriation of $3,000 from the 

 State for investigations in plant pathology, particularly for the study 

 of the chestnut blight. M. T. Cook, formerly of the Delaware 

 station, was recently chosen pathologist. Two special funds, one of 

 $2,000 per annum for the study of diseases of bees, in particular foul 



