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consin Dairy Cow Competition; 10, Operating the Casein Test at 

 Cheese Factories; 11, Concentrated Feeding Stuffs and Fertilizers 

 Licensed for Sale in Wisconsin, 1910; 12, Spraying the Home Or- 

 chard; 13, The Care of New-born Foals; 14, The Determination of 

 Salt in Butter at the Creamery; 1^-, Analyses of Licensed Commer- 

 cial Fertilizers, 1910; 10, The Culture and Storage of Root Crops; 

 and the Annual Report, 1908-9. 



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 



State appropriation 18, .500. 00 



Fees 9, '!96. 84 



Total 55, 796. 84 



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 Wisconsin station continues to pursue actively a high grade of 

 research work along different lines, and to carry on a propaganda 

 for the adoption of improved methods of practice as based on the 

 results of the station experiments. The scope of its work is widening 

 and the sphere of its influence includes all sections of the State and 

 all phases of Wisconsin agriculture. 



WYOMING. 



Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station, Laramie, 



Department of the University of Wyoming. 



H. G. Knight, A. M., Director. 



The principal change occurring on the Wyoming station staff was 

 the resignation at the close of the year of Director J. D. Towar, who 

 was succeeded by H. G. Knight, the station chemist. L. B. McWethy, 

 the agronomist, retired from the station March 1, and his place was 

 filled by T. S. Parsons. C. J. Oviatt was appointed assistant in the 

 Avool investigations. During the year a new barn, costing about 

 $5,000, Avas erected on the stock farm. A grain barn was completed 

 r.nd fitted up for cleaning, handling, and storing seed grains. 



Work on the Adams-fund jirojects approved for the station was 

 continued. In the wool investigations considerable attention was 

 given to the development of proper methods for studying coefficients 

 of variability, the breaking strain, elasticity, and other points regard- 

 ing a scientific study of wool fiber. The study of environment on 

 the character of wool was carried on with two flocks of sheep, one 

 being kept in Ohio and the other in Wyoming. The feeding and 



