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the use of lime was distinctly beneficial in combating club-root dis- 

 ease in the field, and that the after effect of lime as shown on a plat 

 where it was applied two years jjrevious to the experiments was 

 quite marked. At the expense of the Crop Pest Commission, he 

 pursued work on peach yellows, having about 700 diseased trees under 

 observation. 



The publications received from this station during the year were 

 as follows: Bulletins 186, The Efficiency of Hand Separators; 189, 

 Some Diseases of Swine; 190, Cooperative Herd Testing; 192, To- 

 mato Blight and Rot in Virginia; and Circular 8, The Dairy Cow 

 and Her Record. 



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

 lows: 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $13,789.01 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 14, 960. 00 



Balance from United States appropriation, Hatcli fund- 1, 210. 99 

 Balance from United States appropriation, Adams fund- 40. 00 



State appropriation, including balance from previous 



year 6, 930. 49 



Farm products 5,561.33 



Miscellaneous, including balance from previous year — 193. 50 



Total 42, 685. 32 



The Virginia station is doing a large amount of work and is 

 striving to make itself of the greatest usefulness to the agriculture 

 of the State. The relations of the station with other agricultural 

 agencies of the State are favorable to agricultural progress. The 

 Federal funds are now inadequate to develop the fullest efficiency 

 of the institution and other support is much needed. 



Virginia Truck Experiment Station, Norfolk. 



Cooperating with the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and the United 



States Department of Agriculture. 



T. C. Johnson, B. S. A., M. A., Director. 



At the Virginia Tn^ck Station, a new greenhouse was erected at 

 a cost of $2,320.75, and a Skinner irrigation system covering about 

 4 acres was installed at a cost of $831.71. There were no changes in 

 the station staff during the past year. 



The station continued its work on the control of insects injurious 

 to truck crops, giving special attention to the spinach aphis {Myzus 

 persiece), and the control of insects affecting cabbage during the 

 cooler months. Observations on the influence of certain commercial 

 fertilizers on truck soils and truck crops were continued and a rota- 

 tion including peanuts, potatoes, and corn, together Avith crimson 

 cloA'er and cowpeas was begun. The improvement of certain strains 

 of cabbage and spinach was continued and investigations to deter- 



