98 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The following publications were received from this station during 

 the year: Bulletins 59, Oleander Poisoning of Live Stock; (30, Timely 

 Hints to Farmers; 61, Eelation of Weather to Crops and Varieties 

 Adapted to Arizona Conditions ; and 62, Olive Culture and Oil Manu- 

 facture in the Arid Southwest. 



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 13, 000. 00 



Territorial appropriation, balance from previous year 12, 735. 32 



Southern Pacific and El Paso & Southwestern Rail- 

 roads, including balance from previous year 1, 900. 71 



Farm products 1, 772. 55 



Total 44, 408. 58 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this department and has been approved. 



The work of the Arizona station is being actively prosecuted with 

 special reference to the needs of the Territory, and the operation of 

 the station is carried on under a systematic and careful supervision, 



** ARKANSAS. 



Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Fayefteville. 



Department of the University of Arkansas. 

 C. F. Adams, B. Agr., A. M., M. D.. Director. 



Considerable progress was made during the year in reorganizing 

 the station and putting its work on a better basis. A department of 

 plant pathology was established and J. L. Hewitt was promoted to 

 be its head. Veterinary science was separated from animal hus- 

 bandry and made a department by itself, with Wilfrid Lenton in 

 charge. A. K. Short, head of the dej^artment of animal husbandry, 

 resigned during the year to take charge of the secondary agricultural 

 school recently established in the second congressional district of the 

 State. Assistants were appointed in entomology, veterinary science, 

 and in agronomy, and the assistant in plant pathology resigned dur- 

 ing the year. After the close of the fiscal year, P. IST. Flint, of the 

 Georgia station, was appointed animal husbandman, and assistants 

 were appointed in agricultural chemistry, plant pathology, ento- 

 mology, animal husbandry, and agiiculture. 



The department of agi-onomy was improved under its new manage- 

 ment, and the work was enlarged and the equipment improved in 

 the department of plant pathology. The need of suitable land for 

 permanent experimental work in agronomy, animal husbandry, and 



