134 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



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 Illinois station is conducting a large amount of scientific and 

 practical work, organized on an extensive scale in many departments. 

 The Federal funds are liberally supplemented with State funds, and 

 the work of the station now covers the State in a quite comprehensive 

 way. 



INDIANA 



Agricultural Experiment Station of Indiana, Lafayette. 



Department of Purdue University. 



Arthur Goss, M. S., A. C, Director. 



The year was one of great activity at this station in developing 

 the work on soil and crop improvement, dairying, poultry raising, 

 animal husbandry, hog cholera and other animal diseases, and horti- 

 culture, for which largel}^ increased appropriations were made by 

 the last legislature. The terms of the law which makes these appro- 

 priations, aggregating $75,000 annually, are very broad, namely, " to 

 aid in acquiring and disseminating among the people of the State 

 useful and i^i-actical information on subjects relating to agriculture 

 and to promote investigations concerning the principles of agricul- 

 tural science," and '^ for the purpose of providing the necessary equip- 

 ment and paying the expenses of conducting experiments and investi- 

 gations and otherwise acquiring information and disseminating said 

 information by means of publications, lectures, and otherwise." 



The act provides that the investigations shall be carried out along 

 lines agreed upon by the director of the station and an advisory com- 

 mittee of five persons representing (1) the State Corn Growers' 

 Association, (2) the State Dairymen's Association, (3) the State 

 Live Stock Association, (4) the State Horticultural Society, and (5) 

 the State Poultry Fanciers' Association. The appropriation is con- 

 tinuous and provides for general maintenance of the station and for 

 extension work as well as for the special lines of investigation named. 



The station acquired about 32 acres of additional land for horticul- 

 tural and poultry experiments, and considerable plantings of apples 

 and small fruits were made upon a portion of this area. A new 

 greenhouse for the use of the botanist and a seed and fertilizer house 

 for the agronomist were completed during the year. An area of 

 about 5 acres better suited for the work on hog cholera and other 

 animal diseases was acquired for the veterinarian. The management 

 .of the dairy herd was transferred from the department of animal 

 husbandry to that of dairjdng. 



