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department of agriculture, and at a 10-day course held by the uni- 

 versity at the West Tennessee substation. 



The publications of the station received during the year were as 

 follows: Bulletins 87, The Relation of the Weather Service to the 

 Farmers of Tennessee ; and 88, Insuring the Peach Crop. 



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 8,101.81 



Total 36,101.81 



A report of the receipts and exi3enditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance with the schedules jorescribed 

 by this department and has been approved. 



The distinctive element of progress by this station during the year 

 was the extension of its work to different sections of the State. It 

 is doing substantial work for the agriculture of the State, which is 

 meeting with wide appreciation. 



TEXAS. 



Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station. 



Department of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. 



H. II. Harrington, LL. D., Director. 



Among the changes occurring at the Texas station during the year 

 were the transfer of the station headquarters to the newly completed 

 station administration building, the resignation of W. C. Welborn 

 as vice director and agriculturist, and the promotion of H. L. Mc- 

 Knight from assistant agriculturist to agriculturist of the station. 

 E. J. Kyle, O. M. Ball, and E. Schoel were relieved of station work. 

 The new station building is practically fireproof and affords greatly 

 improved offices and laboratory room. A State appropriation of 

 $1,000 annually for the current biennium became available for 

 tobacco investigations in cooperation with this department at its 

 tobacco station at Nacogdoches. The allotment for station printing 

 in the budget was $2,000. 



The location of seven new substations authorized by the last legis- 

 lature was decided upon by the locating board, consisting of the gov- 

 ernor, lieutenant governor, and State commissioner of agriculture, as 

 follows : At Pecos in Reeves County, at Lubbock in Lubbock County, 

 at Spur in Dickens County, at Denton in Denton County, at Temple 

 in Bell County, at Beaumont in Jefferson County, and at Angleton 

 in Brazoria County. Of these the two last named are to give special 

 attention to rice problems. The localities at which the several sta- 



