198 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



different counties of the Territory during the past 10 years. In 

 cooperation with the Keclamation Service the changes in irrigation 

 water taken from the Pecos River at Carlsbad during the irrigating 

 season were determined, and in cooperation with the State engineer 

 waters of different localities were examined. 



In animal husbandry, feeding experiments were conducted with 10 

 dairy cows in which grass pasturage alone Avas compared with grass 

 supplemented with corn meal and bran. A feeding experiment with 

 25 ^'earling range steers was continued, the results showing that the 

 cheapest gain resulted from feeding alfalfa alone, and that light 

 grain feeding during the last 30 days of the feeding period was more 

 profitable than feeding grain the entire period. The results of a 

 pig- feeding exi^eriment indicated that alfalfa pasture alone is not a 

 satisfactory means of fattening growing pigs, and that the largest 

 returns per acre for alfalfa pasture were secured in connection with 

 a half-grain ration or with feeding skimmed milk. It was further 

 found that 8 pounds of skimmed milk was practically equivalent to 

 1 pound of wheat as a supplement to alfalfa pasture. With poultry, 

 incubator experiments were made to study the variation of moisture 

 conditions in high altitudes, the means by which the moisture might 

 be increased in the machine, and the cause of mortality of chicks in 

 the shell. 



A dry farm is conducted at Tucumcari with a territorial appro- 

 priation of $5,000 a year for two years. Several small buildings were 

 put up and the land is under cultivation. This farm is imder a differ- 

 ent board of management and has but little, if any, connection with 

 the station. 



The following publications were received fi'om this station during 

 the year: Bulletins 70, Sweet Potato Culture; 71, The Small Irriga- 

 tion Pumping Plant; 72, Denatured Alcohol from Tunas and other 

 Sources; 73, Tests of Pumping Plants in Xew Mexico, 1908-9; 74, 

 Onion Tests. 1905-1909 ; and 75, Apple Culture under Irrigation. 



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 



Farm products 2, 208. 19 



Fees 1,496.07 



Total 31, 704. 26 



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 New Mexico station includes the study of numer- 

 ous problems which present themselves in different sections and 



