196 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



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

 follows : 



State Station: State appropriation (fiscal year ended 



Oct. ?,1, 1910) $39,000 



College Station : 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act : 15, 000 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 13, 000 



Total 67, 000 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance with the schedides prescribed 

 by this department and has been approved. 



The work of the New Jersey stations is going forward in an or- 

 derly and systematic way, and is accomplishing a great deal for the 

 agriculture of the State. 



NEW MEXICO. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of New Mexico, Agricultural College. 



Department of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



Luther Foster, M. S. A., Director. 



Unlike the previous year, the changes on the staff of the New 

 Mexico station were comparatively few and were confined to the 

 minor positions. 



The Adams-fund work of the year in horticulture consisted of the 

 continuation of the plant-breeding experiments with Mexican chil- 

 lies, investigations on the grape crown gall, life-history studies of 

 the codling moth under New Mexican conditions, and experiments 

 to ascertain why potato tubers failed to develop properly in parts 

 of the Territory. In connection with the breeding work on chillies, 

 11 strains were gi'own in plat tests for comparison, and work on the 

 potato project was pursued in the field and in the greenhouse. 



In the work on sugars in cactus fruits, special attention was given 

 to the relation of development of sugars to ripening of the fruit, the 

 use of the mucilage contained in the plant for paper sizing, and the 

 coloring matter of the fruit with reference to its commercial use. 

 Work was also done on the production of alcohol from tunas, the 

 results of which were published in Bulletin 72 of the station. 



In connection with the project on the relations of soil, water, and 

 crop in respect to irrigation, different amounts of water were applied 

 to different crops, and soil moisture, temperature, and evaporation 

 were measured and recorded. This work was supplemented by trans- 

 piration experiments carried on in tanks. This year corn was gi*own 

 in the rotation, and the crops produced with irrigations of 1 and 2 

 inches at frequent intervals did not grow so well as those receiving 

 3 and 4 inch irrigations at more remote intervals. The results of the 



