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bers of the staff to work in fsiriners' institutes. There is need of 

 additional funds to investigate probh'nis which the rapidlj'- growino- 

 resources of the State are bringing up^ — pro})lenis in animal hus})andrv, 

 in iirigation for rice and the utilization of rice products, in sugar 

 protluction, and in cotton growing and the development of means for 

 resisting the advances of the Mexican cotton-boll weevil. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted at the Louisiana stations dur- 

 ing the past year were as follows: 



SucAR Station. — Chemistry; bacteriology; soils and soil physics; 

 tield experiments — tests of fodder plants and varieties of cane; horti- 

 culture — tests of home-grown x\ northern-grown seeds; sugar making; 

 drainage; irrigation. 



•to? •'••&• 



State Station. — Geolog}"; ])otany; ])acteriology; soils; inspection 

 of fertilizers and Paris green; field experiments — forage crops, 

 legumes, rotations, varieties of cotton and sugar cane; horticulture; 

 animal husbandry — breeding and feeding for beef production; diseases 

 of animals — inoculation for Texas fever, stud}' of the nodular disease 

 of tiie intestines of sheep, anthrax, glanders, etc., and entomologT. 



NoKTiiKRX Station. — Chemistry; soils; fertilizers; field experi- 

 ments; horticulture; feeding experiments; stock raising, and dairying. 



income. 



The income of the stations during the past fiscal year was as 

 follows: 



United States appropriation $15,1X10. 00 



State ai)propriation 20, OlX). 00 



Fees 10, 000. 00 



Farm pn »lucts 1, 8(59. .W 



Mit^tellaneuu.s, including balance from previous year 11, 218. <i2 



Total 58, 087. 92 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 fund lias })een rendered in accordance with the sch(^dules prescribed by 

 this l)e])artment, and has been approved. 



publications. 



The publications of these stations received during- the past fiscal 

 year were the Anmial Reports for 1!)()1 and l!»U2 and Hullctins C.tl-T-i 

 on experiments in culti\ ating sugar can(\ broom corn, home-grown v. 

 purchased seed, pecans, cane borei', a icport on the geology of Louis- 

 iana, analysis of commercial fertilizers and Paris green, sheep, forage 

 crops, gra.sses, alfalfa, <lo\"ers. etc. 



