214 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The following publications have been received from this station 

 during the year: Bulletins 84. Fattening Hogs; 85, Glanders; 86, 

 Some Ready-mixed Paints; 87, Seed Disinfection and Crop Produc- 

 tion — Methods and Types of Machinery Needed ; Special Food Bulle- 

 tins 11-23; and Paint Bulletins 1-3, Report on Service Condition of 

 Paints. 



The income of the station for 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 16,281.45 



Miscellaneous 5, 468. 31 



Balance from previous year 11,286.10 



Total 61, 035. 86 



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 North Dakota station has in progress a large amount of valu- 

 able experimental work, but with the pressure for extension work of 

 various kinds the experimental work is likely to suffer unless special 

 provision is made for it. The demonstration work of the station is 

 conducted on an extensive scale, and, together with the special train- 

 ing and institute work, a very marked influence on the agriculture of 

 the State is being exerted. 



OHIO. 



Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster. 



C. E. Thoene, M. S. A., Director. 



The last general assembly appropriated $166,295 for the support 

 of the station, including, among other items, the follow^ing amounts 

 for the different station departments: Administration $26,300, 

 agronomy $16,475, animal husbandry $15,000, botany $10,900, chem- 

 istry $3,700, cooperative experiments $20,470, dairy husbandry $8,000, 

 entomology $5,000, forestry $10,000, horticulture $10,950, nutrition 

 $4,000, and soils $10,500. In addition to the allotments for the differ- 

 ent departments there was an appropriation of $17,000 for the com- 

 pletion of the nutrition building, for w^hich $5,000 was allowed by the 

 previous assembly, $3,000 for an extension of the power house, and 

 $4,000 for the purchase of additional land. These appropriations 

 provide for extension work along several lines, including the estab- 

 lishment of a new department, that of dairy husbandry. 



An act was passed April 13, 1910, providing for the establishment 

 of county experiment farms. This law is wholly optional in char- 

 acter, merely providing a way by w hich the counties may inaugurate 



