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The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows: 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $14,250.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 13,000.00 



Balance from United States appropriations for 1908-9_ 750. 00 



Miscellaneons 3, 873. 37 



Total 31, 873. 37 



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. 



A special need of this station is the opportimity to place its work 

 before the people of the State through demonstration and cooperative 

 experiments and other extension enterprises. The amount which can 

 be done in this direction with the Federal funds is quite restricted^ 

 and a small appropriation is needed for the purpose. 



NEW JERSEY. 

 New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station, 'New Brunswick. 



At Rutgers College. 



E. B. VooRHEES, D. Sc, Director. 



New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station, New Brunstvick. 



Department of Rutgers College. 

 E. B. VooRHEES, D. Sc, Director. 



No changes were made during the year in the important lines of 

 work and in the station staff. The provision of new equipment was 

 limited to the construction of a laboratory, costing with furnishings 

 about $1,000, and designed for the use of the biologist in the work 

 on oysters. For entomological investigations, including the mosquito 

 work, the State allows from $20,000 to $25,000 annually. 



As heretofore, the Adams-fund investigations were confined to 

 studies in chemistry and bacteriology of soils and to plant breeding. 

 Under the soils project the associative growth of leguminous and non- 

 leguminous plants was studied, and a preliminary paper on the sub- 

 ject was published. The efficiency of commercial cultures of Pseu- 

 domonas radicicola for inoculating purposes was studied, the results, 

 as recorded in Bulletin 227 of the station, showing that on soils prop- 

 erly drained and properly supplied with moisture, lime, phosphates, 

 and potash the commercial cultures under test were capable of 

 increasing the yields of such leguminous crops as had not been pre- 

 viously grown on the land. 



The bacterial factor of barnyard manure was studied to ascertain 

 in how far the beneficial effects from it are due to its action as an 

 inoculating material and how far to the plant food it supplies. 

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