220 EEPOKT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Country; 32, The Maiiurial Value of Different Leg^umes; 36, Field 

 Peas on a Palouse Wheat Farm ; 37, Commerical Fertilizers; 38, Corn 

 Growing in Washington; Bulletins 2 (special series), Forage Plants 

 for Western Washington ; 3, Root Diseases Caused by Armillaria 

 mellea in the Puget Sound Country; 4, Practical Poultry Buildings; 

 5, Clubroot of Cabbage and Allied Plants; and the Annual Reports 

 for 1909 and 1910. 



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 



State appropriation 38,146.00 



Fees 730.00 



Farm products 358.93 



Total 49, 2.34. 93 



The definite form of organization of the ^York of the Washington 

 station has restilted in a very satisfactory condition of affairs and has 

 made possible more regular and systematic research work. Financial 

 assistance given through the board of regents has relieved the in- 

 stitution from embarrassment in connection with the publication of 

 popular bulletins, rentals of tracts of land for experimental work, 

 and other items of similar expenditures. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Morgantouon. 



Department of West Virginia University. 



E. D. Sanderson, B. S. A., Director. 



A number of changes in the staff of the West Virginia station took 

 place during the past year and at its close J. H. Stewart resigned the 

 directorship to take effect January 1, 1912. Shortly afterwards, 

 E. D. Sanderson, dean of the college, was elected director of the 

 station, the two positions being combined. 



Work on the seven Adams fund projects in hand was carried on 

 during the year, a large part of the station energies being devoted 

 to these investigations. The apple-leaf disease work was narrowed 

 down to a study of the apple rust mainlv. Culture work with the 

 rust was begun, a study of the time and source of infection was car- 

 ried on, the effect of weather conditions being specially taken into 

 account, and control methods were considered. The destruction of 

 the cedar trees in infested localities as a means of preventing or, to 

 some extent, controlling the di-sease was confirmed and an experiment 

 with inoculated and rusted fruit in cold, warm, and ordinar}' storage 

 gave negative results with reference to the spread of the disease. 



In studying the factors entering into the production of sanitary 

 milk the germ content of the milk as it leaves the cow's udder was 



