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also found that the content of blue grass in mineral nutrients may be 

 very greatly increased by the use of fertilizers. 



The department of cooperation conducted extensive cooperative 

 field experiments in farm management and farm practice studies, 

 observations on the production of milk in farm dairies, and studies 

 concerning the swine and poultry industries. 



Two county experiment farms, established this year under a recent 

 Jaw, were placed in charge of the station. One of these farms, in 

 Miami County, contains 123 acres and is located about 2 miles nortli- 

 w^est of Troy, and the other, the Paulding County farm, containing 

 92 acres, lies 1^ miles south of Paulding. General schemes of experi- 

 mentation were proposed for these two county farms and approved 

 by the county boards of agriculture. 



The publications received from this station during the year were 

 as follows: Bulletins 214, A Brief Handbook of the Diseases of Cul- 

 tivated Plants in Ohio; 215, Methods for the Quantitative Estima- 

 tion of Inorganic Phosphorus in Vegetable and Animal Substances; 

 216, Spraying Machinery; 217, Apple Culture in Ohio; 218, The 

 Status of the Potato-growdng Industry in Ohio — Seasonal Xotes on 

 Potatoes; 219, The Relative Durability of Post Timbers; 220, Tw^enty- 

 ]iinth Annual Report, 1910; 221, The Composition of ^Vheat; 222, 

 The Mineral Nutrients in Blue Grass ; 223, Fourth Annual Report on 

 Forest Conditions in Ohio; 224, The Rejuvenation of Orchards; 

 225, The Farm Grasses of Ohio; 226, The Wheat Jointworm; 228, 

 Two Recent Important Cabbage Diseases of Ohio ; Circulars 82, rev.. 

 Cooperative Forestry Work; 98, Minor Items of Farm Equipment; 

 101, Illustrative Exhibits at State and County Fairs; 102, Spraying 

 to Kill Weeds — Some Useful Methods; 103, Autumn Meeting of the 

 Ohio State Horticultural Society; 104, Plans and Summary Tables 

 of the Experiments at the Central Farm, Wooster, on the Maintenance 

 of Soil Fertility; 105, Floats; 106, Seeding Lawns and Permanent 

 Pastures; 107, A Successful Alfalfa and Truck Farm in Southeastern 

 Ohio; 108, Orchard Practice; 109, Orchard Spraying Suggestions for 

 1911; 110, Treatment of Artificial Tree Plantation; 111, The manage- 

 ment of Clover in Corn-belt Rotations; and 112, Commercial Apple 

 Orcharding in Ohio. 



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

 lows: 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act _ -$15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act.- 15,000.00 



State appropriation 200,090.00 



Farm products . 10,892.51 



Miscellaneous 14,879. 6" 



Balance from previous year 145,496.85 



Total 401, 359. 03 



