174 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



partment were prepared for publication. In addition to the experi- 

 mental work, from 5 to G weeks were devoted to nursery inspection. 



The horticultural deiDartment of the station carried on variety tests 

 with strawberries, peaches, plums, apples, pecans, grapes, ornamentals, 

 and other horticultural crops, and made spraying tests for the con- 

 trol of curculio, brown rot, and other insect pests and plant diseases. 

 SjDecial attention was given to the strength of solution adapted to 

 local conditions. 



The poultry department concerned itself principally with growing 

 good fowls under ordinary conditions and breeding them for fancy 

 jDoints, Trap nests were kept for several breeds, and some tests to 

 determine loss in dressing poultry were made. Bulletins of a popu- 

 lar nature on turkey raising and on the general management of 

 poultry were prepared. No very definite experimental work was 

 attempted. 



The botanist conducted some nursery work in forestry and on 

 shrubbery, with a view to determining the requirements of nursery 

 work in forestry in Mississippi. No experimental work for the 

 station was done. 



The veterinary department reported some work with hog-cholera 

 serum, for which the legislature made a special appropriation to the 

 Live Stock Sanitary Board. 



The jDublications of the station received during the year were as 

 follows: Bulletins 121, Experiments in Feeding Beef Steers; 122, 

 Eeport of the Work at the Holly Springs Station for 1908; 123, 

 Inspection and Analj^ses of Commercial Feeding Stuffs on Sale in 

 the State; 124, Pecan Culture; 125, Inspection and Analyses of Com- 

 mercial Feeding Stuffs on Sale in the State; 126, Inspection and 

 Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers on Sale in the State; 127, In- 

 spection and Analyses of Cotton-seed Meal on Sale in Mississippi; 

 129, Sugar Cane for Sirup Making; 130, Peanuts; 131, Snap Beans; 

 132, Soils of Mississippi; 133, Inspection and Analyses of Com- 

 mercial Feeding Stuffs on Sale in the State; 134, Broom Corn; 135, 

 Cotton, 1909; 13G, Feeding Beef Steers on Cotton-seed Meal, on 

 Pasture; Circulars 20-2G, Inspection and Analj^ses of Commercial 

 Fertilizers on Sale in the State; and 30 and 31, Inspection and 

 Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers on Sale on the State. 



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 for substations 16, 425. 00 



Fees 00.00 



Farm products 28. 799. .57 



Miscellaneous 3, 577. 26 



Total 76, 891. 83 



