206 KEPOKT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



for which a State fund of $1,500 was provided, and of crossing bees, 

 for which there was a fund of $500. 



The animal husbandry work included feeding experiments with 80 

 yearling Shropshire sheep, in which eight different rations were com- 

 pared and the effect of cottonseed meal was observed. 



The veterinarian continued the study of Texas fever, testing the 

 same remedies with this disease as with swamp fever. Hog-cholera 

 serum was manufactured and distributed with State funds of $500 

 per annum, a charge of 1^ cents per cubic centimeter being made. 



The publications received from this station during the year were 

 as follows: Bulletins 126, Active Phosphoric Acid and Its Relation 

 to the Needs of the Soil for Phosphoric Acid in Pot Experiments; 

 127, Commercial Feeding Stuffs; 129, Studies of the Ammonia- 

 soluble Organic Matter of the Soil; 130, Alkali Soils, Irrigation 

 Waters; 131, Hog Feeding Experiments; 132, Report of the Co- 

 operative Forage Crop "Work by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture and the Texas State Experiment Station at Chillicothe; 

 133, Commercial Fertilizers; 134, Report of the Director on the 

 Establishment of the New State Stations ; 135, Feeding Experiments 

 with Steers and Hogs ; and 136, Organic Phosphoric Acid of the Soil. 



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, including balance from previous year 1, 9S0. 92 



Total 31, 980. 92 



The Texas station has great opportunities for usefulness to the 

 agriculture of the State, Attention is being given to building up its 

 work at the central station, and the State has provided for local 

 experiments to meet the needs of various sections. 



UTAH. 



Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan. 



Department of the Agricultural College of Utah. 



E. D. Ball, Pii. D., Director. 



There were comparatively few changes in personnel or lines of 

 work at the Utah station during the year. A number of different 

 experiments in horticulture, however, were inaugurated by L. D. 

 Batchelor. who took charge of the horticultural department of the 

 station in September, 1910. At the close of the fiscal year a number 

 of important changes on the station staff went into effect. J. C. 

 Hogenson. agronomist, was transferred to extension work and was 

 succeeded by F. S. Harris; W. E. Carroll was appointed to take 



