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culture suited to dry-land farming at North Platte. Cooperation 

 with farmers is carried on extensivelj^ in a number of lines, including 

 orchard-spraying demonstrations, tests of varieties of corn and small 

 grains, exjjeriments with fertilizers for grain, farm management, and 

 forest j)lantings. Some of the station men assisted during the year 

 in farmers' institutes held in different parts of the State. 



The publications received from this station during the year were 

 as follows: Bulletins 110, Report of the Nebraska Seed Laboratory; 

 111, Changes in the Composition of the Loess Soils of Nebraska 

 Caused by Cultivation; 112, Experiments with Corn; 113, Oats; 

 11-1, Storing Moisture in the Soil; Circular 1, Cooperative Experi- 

 ments in Forest Planting ; and Annual Report for 1908. 



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 appropi'iation, central station, amount used esti- 

 mated 17, 500. 00 



State appropriation, amount used for Nortti Platte 



substation 24, 994. 93 



Farm products 28, 511. 73 



Balance from previous year 2, 345. 75 



Total 101, 352. 41 



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 Nebraska station was broadened and strengthened 

 during the year, and the institution extended its operations and its 

 influence throughout the State by means of cooperative experiments 

 and by the establishment of substations made possible by liberal 

 State aid. 



NEVADA. 



Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, Reno. 



Department of Nevada State University. 



J. E. Stubbs, D. D., LL. D., Director. 



Few changes occurred on the staff of the Nevada station, the prin- 

 cipal ones being the transfer of S. C. Dinsmore, the former station 

 chemist, to the food and drugs inspection work, and the appointment 

 of Dr. C. A. Jacobson as research chemist for the station early in the 

 year. The farm for dry-farming experiments, for which the State 

 made a maintenance appropriation, Avas purchased and donated by 

 Elko County at a cost of about $2,000. Possession was secured in 

 June, and the work of clearing off the sagebrush and of breaking the 

 land was begun. The conditions on this "farm are favorable for dry 

 farming, which has been practiced very little in that section. It is 



