172 REPORT OF OFFICE Of'' EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



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 12, 774. 58 



Balance from United States appropriations for 190S-09_ 225. 42 



State appropriation 40, 185. 87 



Farm products 6,212.19 



Total 74, 398. 06 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 bj" this department and has been approved. 



The scientific work, together with its aj)plication to agricultural 

 practice accomplished by the Minnesota station, is of the greatest 

 value to the State and to other sections of the northern Mississippi 

 Valley. The results of the work will unquestionably assure the con- 

 tinued support and appreciation of the people. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural College.^ 

 Department of Mississippi Agi'icultural and Mechanical College. 



J. W. Fox, M. S., Director. 



During the year W. L. Hutchinson was succeeded as director by 

 J. W. Fox, assistant director of the Delta substation, and was ap- 

 pointed director of farmers' institutes and professor of animal hus- 

 bandry. J. A. McLean resigned as animal husbandman and was 

 succeeded by E. R. Lloyd, formerly director of farmers' institutes. 

 A. Smith, who had been placed in charge of the Delta substation, 

 accepted a position as assistant in animal husbandry in the extension 

 division at Clemson College, South Carolina, and was succeeded by 

 R. L. Shields. W. R. Perkins, agronomist, resigned to accept a simi- 

 lar position at the South Carolina station. The poultry work was 

 placed in charge of W. F. Kirkpatrick, of the Rhode Island station. 

 Lender a new State law, a single board of trustees was appointed for 

 several of the State institutions, including the Mississippi college 

 and station. 



The Adams-fund project, involving studies on the breeding of 

 mules, was continued as originally outlined, and detailed records of 

 the progeny were kept. Data on the cost of feeding mules were col- 

 lected incidentally as the work was carried on. The animals were 

 kept in first-class condition, and the feed for them was grown on 

 the station farm. 



In the cottonseed-meal project, pursued by the bacteriologist and 

 the dairyman, physical observations were made on cows, and their 



1 Telegraph address, Starkiille; express and post-oflBce address, Agricultural College; 

 freight address, A. and M. College Station. 



