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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 year was one of many changes in personnel at the Mississippi 

 station, but otherwise the conditions remained much the same as de- 

 scribed in last year's report. It is hoped that the changes in the staff 

 may result in strengthening the work of several departments and of 

 the station as a whole, 



MISSOURI. 



Missouri Agricultural College Experiment Station, Columbia. 



Department of the College of Agriculture and INIechanic Arts of the University 



of Missouri. 



F. B. MuMFORD, B. S., Director. 



The new agricultural building of the University of Missouri, 

 which was dedicated December 28, 1909, contains the administrative 

 offices of the dean and director, together w4th the station library, and 

 further affords quarters for the departments of agronomy, animal 

 husbandry, farm management, rural education, and the instructional 

 work in agricultural chemistry. The offices of the State board of 

 agriculture, the drug and food commission, the State veterinarian, 

 and the State highway engineer are also located in this building. 

 The construction of a veterinary hospital and hog-cholera serum 

 laboratory was begun with State funds. A heating plant was built 

 and the furnishing of the agricultural building was completed. 



A project system was begun during the year which enables the 

 director to keep more closely in touch with the various lines of work 

 in progress than has heretofore been the case. The State appropria- 

 tions for the biennium ending December 31, 1910, were enumerated in 

 the last report, w ith the exceptions that appropriations of $7,500 for 

 outlying experiments, $10,000 for the animal husbandry department, 

 $5,200 for the department of horticulture and botany, $15,000 for 

 the experiment station, and $1,000 for the agricidtural library were 

 not mentioned. 



The Adams-fund work of the station was continued, with addi- 

 tional equipment and an increase in the number of assistants. The 

 results of the completion of certain phases of Adams-fund projects 

 were reported during the year. The study of the influence of 

 maturity on the yield of constituents of timothy, begun in 1908, Avas 

 completed. 



The results of the study of the dormant period in trees showed 

 conclusively that the great majority of species indigenous to tem- 

 perate climates do not have a firmly fixed winter resting period from 



