198 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



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 14, 900. 00 



Balance from United States appropriation, Adams fund 100. 00 



Farm products, including balance from previous year__ 7, 146. 07 



Total 37,146.07 



Conditions at the South Carolina station have materially im- 

 l^roved and the work has been placed on a more efficient basis. The 

 institution is making an earnest effort to meet the needs of the State, 

 and appreciation of it continues to grow. 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 



South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Brookings. 



South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



J. W. Wilson, M. S. A., Director. 



The changes in the staff of the South Dakota station during the 

 past year were practically confined to the department of agronomy. 

 About the middle of the fiscal year C. Willis, agronomist, J. V. Bopp 

 and W. L. Burlison, assistants in the department, resigned, and to- 

 ward the close of the year A. N. Hume was appointed agronomist in 

 charge. The improvements made at the station included the build- 

 ing of a number of silos to compare the relative efficiency, cost, and 

 other factors of concrete, tile, and stave construction. The legisla- 

 ture authorized a new agricultural building, to cost $100,000, and the 

 State appropriations for the ensuing biennium included $11,000 for 

 substations, $1,000 for seed testing, $2,000 for alfalfa breeding work, 

 $2,000 for popular bulletins, and $26,000 for farmers' institutes. A 

 new substation was authorized in Fall River County for work on 

 dry farming. 



Progress was made on all Adams fund projects except one on 

 which the work was interrupted by resignations in the department of 

 agronomy. The investigation of the histology, bacteriology, and 

 treatment of lumpy jaw in cattle was about completed at the end of 

 the year. In this work the department of veterinary science was able 

 to demonstrate a filamentous structure in Gram negative pus from 

 the lesions. Cultural experiments and experimental injections with 

 this pus were made, but this phase of the investigation was not 

 finished. 



The department of horticulture continued the improvement of 

 hardy wild fruits by breeding and crossing, and some of the results 

 were described in Bulletin 180 of the station. The most striking 

 results were obtained by hybridizing the native plum with the 

 Chinese apricot and the native sand cherry with the Japanese plum. 



