14() KKl'oUT OF OFFICE OF KXPEKIMENT STATIONS. 



A report (if tli(> icccipts and (vxixMulituros for the riiitt'd States 

 fund has liccn rcndci-cd in accordaiici' with the schcchdcs ])i-('S('ril)(>d h}' 

 this Department, and has been approv(>d. 



I'lIBLICATIONS. 



The i)ul)lications of this station received durin<,^ the ])ast fiscal yoar 

 wore Buih'tins T;")-T'.i. liuHetin 75 records the i'(\salt.s of eij.'-ht different 

 fecdin<if experiments with cattU' and pigs. The other l)uMetins include 

 reports on the poisoning of catth' ]}y sorg-hum and Kalir coi-n, maca- 

 roni wheats, (experiments with the dairy herd, and experiments in 

 orchard culture. 



NEVADA. 



Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, Reno. 



Department of Nevada State University. 



GOVERNINC; BOARD. 



Eegents of University: J. N. Evans {President), Reno; W. W. Booher, Elko; Richard 

 Kirman, Reno; George H. Taylor {Secretary), Reno. 



STATION STAFF. 



J. E. Stubbs, M. A., 1). I)., Director. G. 11. True, B. S., Agriculturist, Animal 



N. E. Wilson, M. S., Vice- Direct or; Chemist. Husbandman. 



Peter Fransden, M. A., Zoologist, Bade- Elizal^eth S. Stubbs, B. A., Stenograplier. 



nologht. S. B. Doten, B. A., Entomologist. 



P. B. Kennedy, Ph. D., Botanist, Horti- C. R. Fitzmaurice, Assistant Chemist. 



cuUurist. T. W. Clark, Farm Foreman. 



I. W. Ayres, M. A., Librarian. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Nevada Station has not made any material changes in iuS work 

 except in the department of agriculture and animal husbandry, where 

 some new lines of work in irrigation to determine the duty of water 

 and experiments with root crops as a feed supplementary to alfalfa 

 have been undertaken. The equipment of this department has been 

 improved b}^ the purchase of a pair of pure-bred Percheron horses, 

 some pure-bred swine, and about $800 worth of high-grade Holstein 

 cattle. The chemical department also has better facilities in the new 

 building recentl}^ occupied, and is doing some work with soils and 

 with wheat to determine the relative amounts of gluten in several 

 varieties. The entomologist, wdio has also been making improve- 

 ments in the equipment of his department, has been stud3dng the 

 codling moth and making cooperative demonstration experiments in 

 a number of different localities on destructive crickets, grasshoppers, 

 and red spiders. The botanist and horticulturist has been working up 



