OKLAHOMA. 219 



Characters in Their Relation to Yield; 213, Specific Effects of Ra- 

 tions on the Development of Swine; Circulars 9G, Essentials of Suc- 

 cessful Field Experimentation; 97, The AVork of the Department of 

 Cooperative Experiments; 99, Cooperative Dairy Work; and 100, 

 The Centers of Agricultural Production in Ohio. 



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



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $15,000.00 



United States nppropriation. Adams Act 13,000.00 



State appropriation 16G, 295. 00 



Farm products 11,775.62 



Miscellaneous 3, 183. 63 



Balance from previous year 93,327.35 



Total 305, 581. 60 



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 general condition of the Ohio station is very satisfactory and 

 the State funds for maintenance are increasing. Much of its new 

 equipment, both present and prospective, is for the betterment of its 

 organization and for the increase of its influence throughout the 

 State. 



OKLAHOMA. 



Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station, Stillwater. 



Department of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College. 



J. A. Wilson, B. Agr., Director. 



The year at the Oklahoma station was marked by a number of 

 changes in personnel and a general reorganization of the station 

 staff. Administrative difficulties culminated in the spring in Director 

 J. A. Craig's retirement. In consequence of this L. A. Moorhouse, 

 agronomist, W. L. Burlison, assistant agronomist, W. O. Morris, hor- 

 ticulturist and botanist, W. R. Wright, assistant bacteriologist, and 

 several members of the clerical force resigned. The station was thus 

 deprived of a majority of its leading workers and placed under the 

 necessity of recruiting and reorganizing its force from the director 

 down. Time was required for this; the conditions were not stich as 

 to readily attract qualified men to the vacancies, and some of the 

 positions w^ere filled by men with little experience in advanced lines 

 of work, so that the work of the station was placed in temporary 

 uncertainty. 



Such a recurrence of unsettled conditions as the Oklahoma station 

 has been peculiarly subject to interferes with the continuity and 

 efficiency of its investigations in a degree which the governing boards 

 seem not to appreciate. Three of the leaders and originators of its 



