EXPEEIMENT STATIO:^^. 



REPORT OF SECRETARY AND TREASURER. 



The following account shows the receipts and expenditures of the Experiment 

 Station for the year ending June 30, 1903: 



Cr. Dr. 



July 1. 1903— To balance on hand $2,225 47 



July 10, 1902 received from U. S. Treasury 3,750 00 



Oct. 10, 1902 received from U. S. Treasury 3,750 00 



Jan. 8, 1903 received from U. S. Treasury 3,750 00 



April 7, 1903 received from U. S. Treasury 3,750 00 



June 30, 1903 license fees on 106 brands commercial 



fertilizers 2,120 00 



miscellaneous receipts 11 77 



farm receipts 2,681 10 



from State appropriation, So. Haven. 2,000 00 



from State appropriation for U. P. 



Experiment Station 3,000 00 



U. P. Experiment Station, receipts 

 South Haven Experiment Station 



receipts 587 45 



June 30, 1903 — By disbursements as per vouchers filed in 



the office of the State Auditor Gen- 

 eral $25,198 11 



July 1, 1902 balance on hand 2,427 68 



$27,625 79 $27,625 79 



From thirty-five to forty thousand copies of station bulletins are now issued, and 

 the demand is increasing as farmers learn of their value. Several press bulletins 



have been issued and special information in bulletin form has been sent out by the 

 station. 



DISBITRSEMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF U. S. APPEOPRIATION. 



Salaries 



Director and administrative officers. No. employed 6.. $1,256 55 



Scientific staff, No. employed 1. 4,372 71 



Assistants to scientific staff, No. employed 3 734 80 



$6,364 06 



Labor: 



Monthly employes, 2; average rate, $38.67 $928 03 



Daily and hourly employes 2,043 94 



2,971 97 



Publications: 



Half tones, mailing list, etc $58 25 



Bulletin envelopes and reports 128 04 



186 29 



Carried forward $9,522 32 



