WASHINGTON". 251 



Other Agents in Plant Forcing; 151, "Buddy Sap;" Circular 3, 

 Concerning Work Which the Station Can and Can Not Undertake 

 for Residents of the State; and the Annual Keport for 1908. 



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. (X) 



State appi'opriation 4, 441. 07 



Fees 3, 145. 09 



Farm products 6, 187.13 



T, 



Total 41, 773. 29 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has bpen rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this department and has been approved. 



Although ninnerous changes in its staff interfered with the work 

 of the Vermont station, many of its lines of work were prosecuted 

 activeh^ and the endeavor of the station to serve the public princi- 

 pally through the scientific investigation of matter pertaining to the 

 agriculture of the State was steadfastly maintained. 



WASHINGTON. 



Washiing'ton Agricultural Experiment Station, Pullman. 



Department of tlie State College of Washington. 



R. W. Thatcher, B. S., M. A., Director. 



The changes on the staff of the Washington station during the 

 year, which were otherwise largely confined to the secondary posi- 

 tions, included the resignation of G. Severance as agronomist and 

 the appointment of L. Hegnauer as his successor and the granting 

 of indefinite leave of absence to C. W. Lawrence, the cerealist, and 

 the appointment of A. Carlyle to take charge of the cereal work. 



At the western Washington Experiment Station at Puj^allup a new 

 building with a small greenhouse attached was erected by the State 

 at a cost of $4:,.500. The State appropriation for this station is about 

 $30,000 for the biennium. The work included studies of diseases of 

 the blackberry and the raspberry, breeding experiments with these 

 fruits to improve their quality and their resistance to crown gall and 

 anthracnose, tests with forage crops adapted to furnishing succulent 

 dairy feed for cattle, tests Avith vegetable crops and small fruits, and 

 poultry management. In working on the crown gall of the black- 

 berry a bacterial organism, which appears to be the causative agent, 

 was isolated. 



The Adams-fund work on the improvement of the yield and the 

 chemical composition of cereals was continued with selected hybrid 



