138 REPOET OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Orchard ; and 22, Agricultural Extension. — VI, The Loose Smut of 

 Oats and Stinking Smut of Wheat and Their Prevention; and the 

 Annual Report for 1909. 



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



United. States appropriation, Hatch Act $15, 000. 00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 13, 000. 00 



State appropriation 75, 000. 00 



Fees 22, 837. 21 



Miscellaneous 41, 93.3. 40 



Balance from previous year 11,477.77 



Total 179, 248. 38 



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. 



With the liberal appropriations available, the Indiana station is 

 rapidly extending its work to cover effectively all phases of agricul- 

 ture in the State, and is thus winning the cordial support of Indiana 

 farmers. 



IOWA. 



Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames. 



Department of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 

 C. F. CuRTiss, M. S. A., Director. 



The work of the Iowa station was extended during the year mainly 

 along lines previously pursued. The extension work of the institu- 

 tion was enlarged as a separate department. The new agricultural 

 building, equipped, furnished, and occupied during the year, pro- 

 vides very complete and extensive equipment for instruction and 

 experimental work in the different branches of agriculture. The 

 station equij^ment in general was further improved by other impor- 

 tant additions. 



Many changes occurred in the station staff during the year. I. G. 

 McBeth, of this department, who was appointed experimentalist in 

 soil bacteriology, resigned, after several months of service. J. H. 

 Gordon was appointed assistant dairy bacteriologist and S. C. 

 Guernsey assistant chemist. H. C. Pierce, poultryman, resigned to 

 accept a position with this department in connection Avith market 

 poultry investigations. J. H. Criswell accepted an appointment as 

 agronomist at the Winona College of Agriculture in Indiana, and 

 was succeeded in the farm crops department by H. D. Hughes, of 

 the Missouri station, and H. B. Potter, of the South Dakota station. 

 A. W. Dox, of the Connecticut Storrs station, was appointed station 

 cliemist, and J. M. Evvard, formerly of the Missouri station, was 

 appointed experimentalist in animal husbandry. 



