152 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



At the Rice Experiment Station at Crowley a buildilig was con- 

 structed at a cost of $3,500 without the completion of the interior. 

 (PL II, fig. 1.) A 60-horsepower double-cylinder gasoline engine 

 was installed at a cost of about $2,500 for pumping water for irriga- 

 tion. The work during the past year consisted of fertilizer tests, 

 rotation exiDeriments, and comparison of different methods of flood- 

 ing, soil j)reparation, and irrigation. Of the GO acres at the disposal 

 of the station about one-half is used by the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 of this department in testing over 300 varieties of rice. In the rota- 

 tion experiments, peas, oats, spelt, clovers, Lespedeza, and rape were 

 tried to determine their value for rotative cropping with rice. In 

 June, 1910, the legislature made an appropriation of $7,500 per year 

 for the next two 3"ears for the maintenance of this station. 



The station cooperated with this department in studies of varieties 

 of rice, rice insects, evaporation, and irrigation in rice growing, the 

 study of insects infesting sugar cane, and in testing plants contrib- 

 uted by the department. The station staff participated to some extent 

 in the organization of corn clubs and other local agricultural societies, 

 conducting farmers' institutes, and giving special lectures to farmers. 

 The extension work is in charge of a separate officer, and is carried 

 on in cooperation with the State commissioner of agriculture and with 

 this department. 



The following publications of the stations were received during 

 the year: Bulletins 115, The Principles and Practice of Feeding, In- 

 cluding our Available Stock Foods; 116, Preliminary Eeport on the 

 Anthracnose or Pod Spot Disease of Beans; 117, An Experimental 

 Study of Bagasse and Bagasse Furnaces; 118, Corn; 119, Bean An- 

 thracnose ; Geological Survey Bulletin 8, Oil and Gas in Northwest- 

 ern Louisiana, with Special Reference to the Caddo Field; Fertilizer 

 Report 1908-9 ; Feed Stuffs Report, 1908-9 ; and the Annual Report 

 for 1909. 



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 



State appropriation 13, 737. 60 



University apportionment 600. 00 



Fees 4,500.00 



Farm products 2,918.87 



Miscellaneous 882.62 



Total 50,639.09 



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 Louisiana stations was systematically prosecuted 



during the year along the lines well established and of particular 



importance to the agricultural industries of the State. 



