258 KEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



gallons in vegetable pathology, plant breeding, and entomological 

 work in cooperation with this department, and work on spinach dis- 

 eases in cooperation with the Virginia station. 



The director of the station assisted the State department of agricul- 

 ture in various farmers' institutes in the trucking section of the 

 State. 



The publications of the station received during the year were as 

 follows: Bulletins: 1, The Control of Malnutrition Diseases; 2, Some 

 Insects Injurious to Cabbage, Cucumbers, and Related Crops; and 

 3, Some Seed-potato Questions in 1909. 



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

 follows : 



State appropriation ." $5. 000 



State board of agriculture and immigration 5, 000 



Total 10,000 



The practical and cooperative work of the Virginia Truck Station 

 can not fail to be of great value to the locality and the particular 

 branch of agricultural industry which it is intended to serve. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Morgantovm. 



Department of West Virginia University. 



J. H. Stewart, M. A., Director. 



During the year W. M. Munson, horticulturist of the station, 

 resigned his position on account of illness, which was followed later 

 by his death. C. M. Gifford was elected assistant plant pathologist. 

 Important additions to the equipment of the station dairy and the 

 station laboratories and especially for soil and bacteriological work 

 were made. The State provided $6,000 for orchard inspection and 

 spraying demonstrations, and $4,000 for truck-crop investigations 

 during the 3'ear. 



In general the Adams-fund projects were continued as originally 

 outlined, but work on the horticultural project, owing to the illness 

 of the horticulturist, was confined to the planting of two apple 

 nurseries and the supervision of the apple and peach orchards 

 secured for this investigation. The studies on the effect of high 

 pressures on fruits and fruit juices were about completed, and work 

 was begim on an investigation of the artificial fixation of atmos- 

 pheric nitrogen by means of electrical discharges. 



In connection with the project on the production of sanitary milk, 

 it Avas found that the bacterial content of the milk is very greatly 

 increased by the usual method of artificial cooling in an open room. 



