112 REPOKT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



in 1908-9; 165, The San Jose Scale and Methods of Controlling It; 

 Annual Report for 1907-8, part 12, Report of the Station Botanist, 

 1908; and Annual Report for 1909-10, parts 1, Fertilizers, 1909; 2, 

 Food and Drug Products, 1909; 3, Commercial Feeding Stuffs, 1909; 

 and 4, Ninth Report of the State Entomologist, 1909. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows: 



United States appropriation, Hatcb Act $7,500.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 6, r>00. 00 



State appropriation IS, 500.00 



Individuals 8, 817. 18 



Fees 10,300.00 



Farm products 160.81 



Miscellaneous 594. 42 



Total 52, 372. 41 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 fimds has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this department and has been approved. 



Lines of work at the Connecticut station of much interest to science 

 and of high value to practical agriculture are pursued steadily, and 

 are gaining for the institution the increased confidence and loyal sup- 

 port of the people of the State. 



Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, Storrs. 



Department of the Connecticut Agricultural College. 

 L. A. Clinton, M. S., Director. 



No new lines of work were taken up during the year at the Con- 

 necticut Storrs Station, and aside from satisfactory progress no 

 changes occurred in the different lines of investigation. The biennial 

 State appropriation for the use of the station amounts to $4,000. The 

 station staff remained practically the same as the year before. 



The Adams-fund projects in hand were carried forward during 

 the year and a report on some of the work was made. A prelimi- 

 nary report on the bacillary white diarrhea of chicks was made in 

 Bulletin GO of the station, which states that the specific causative 

 agent is the organism Bacillus- puUorum. The disease was found to 

 have fairly uniform symptoms and post-mortem appearances. Chicks 

 were infected by subcutaneous injection with pure cultures of the 

 organism and the disease was also transmitted through infected food 

 supply. The original source of infection seemed to be the mother 

 hen, and a certain percentage of the chicks in infected j)laces were 

 observed to have the disease when hatched. The disease seemed most 

 prevalent among artificially hatched and brooded chicks, but hen- 

 hatched chicks were not found to be immune. 



