206 REPOET OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The publications received from the station during the year were 

 as follows: Bulletins 268, The Substitution of Roots for Concen- 

 trated Foods in Rations for Milk Production; 269, Substitutes for 

 Skim Milk in Raising Calves; 270. Fancy Cheeses for the Farm and 

 Factory; 271, The Incomes of 178 New York Farmers; 272, Fire 

 Blight of Pears, Apples, Quinces, etc. ; 273, The Effect of Fertilizers 

 Applied to Timothy on the Corn Crop Following It; 274, Building 

 Poultry Houses; 275, Effect of Steam Sterilization on the Water 

 Soluble Matter in Soils; and 276. Peach-leaf Curl. 



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



Tuited States appropriation. Hatch Act .$13. r)00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 11,700 



Total 25, 200 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the Federal funds 

 has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed by 

 this dejDartment and has been approved. 



The State appropriated $200,000 for the maintenance of the college 

 of agriculture for the fiscal year 1910-11, an increase of $25,000 over 

 the appropriation of the previous year. The station continues to 

 increase and strengthen its work in a variety of lines important to 

 the agriculture of the State. The policy pursued of differentiating 

 college extension and experimentation work in the organization is 

 giving good results and is working out to the satisfaction of all the 

 departments concerned. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, West Raleigh. 



Department of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



C. B. Williams, M. S.. Director. 



A number of changes occurred in the staff of the North Carolina 

 station during the year. J. Michels. dairy husbandman, who re- 

 signed to engage in commercial work, was succeeded by J. C. McNutt. 

 J. D. Cecil was appointed animal pathologist of the station. Some 

 changes also took place in the corps of a.ssistants, but these did not 

 take effect until after the close of the fiscal year. In accordance with 

 a law passed in March, 1909. the printing of the station publications 

 was done at the expense of the State. The improvements made dur- 

 ing the year included the installation of a system of water works, the 

 erection of a tool and implement shed, and the construction of a num- 

 ber of smaller buildings for different purposes. 



The Adams-fund work in plant pathology included the investiga- 

 tion of a new apple disease caused by an undetermined fungus. The 



