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regions; strawberry breeding; and with resistant strains of peaches. 

 A study of faulty pickle fermentation was made during the j^ear. 



The station has been active in joromoting the formation of live- 

 stock and other farmers' organizations and getting in touch with 

 those already organized, in this way increasing its influence through- 

 out the State. It is planned to add assistants to the staff to relieve 

 the members in charge of research work from the growing and heavy 

 correspondence and extension work. Five classe<^ of publications are 

 now issued — regular bulletins, special bulletins, technical bulletins, 

 circulars, and annual reports, all of which are printed by the State. 



The following j^ublications were received fi-om this station during 

 the year : Bulletins 254, Wintering Farm Horses ; 255, Cement Silos 

 in Michigan ; 256, Fertilizer Analyses ; 257, Rearing Calves on Skim 

 Milk and Supplementar}^ Feed; 258, Insects of lield Crops; 259, 

 Bean Growing; Special Bulletins 49, Grape Spraying Experiments 

 in Michigan, 1907-8 ; 50, The Grand Traverse Disease or Lake Shore 

 Disease; Technical Bulletins 1, Keeping Qualities of Butter; 2, Keep- 

 ing Qualities of Butter; 3, Studies of Agglutination Reactions in 

 Hog Cholera during the Process of Serum Production; 4, Organic 

 Nitrogenous Compounds in Peat Soils; Circular 6, Hog-cholera 

 Serum ; 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 6, 122. 07 



Fees 4, 080. 00 



Miscellaneous 345.22 



Balance from previous year 1,634.32 



Total 40, 181. 61 



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 an improvement in the equipment and an increase in available 

 funds, both the scientific and practical work of the Michigan station 

 has been greatly broadened and strengthened. 



MINNESOTA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota, 



University Farm, St. Paul. 



Department of the University of Minnesota. 



A. F. Woods, M. A., Director. 



A number of changes took place in the station staff during the year. 

 Harry Snyder, of the division of agricultural chemistry and soils, re- 

 signed, and Ralph Hoagland, formerly of this department, was placed 



