154 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



DISBURSEMENT OF EXPERIMENT STATION MONEYS— OTHER THAN RECEIVED 



FROM U. S. TREASURER. 



Salaries $99,227 46 



Labor 44 , 579 39 



Publications 21 ,396 17 



Postage and stationery 1 , 732 58 



Frelgbt and express 915 90 



Heat, light, water and power 1 ,018 04 



Chemicals and laboratory supplies 7 , 642 32 



Seeds, plants and sundry supplies 8,369 76 



Fertilizers 3 ,409 73 



Feeding stuffs 5 ,865 53- 



Library 641 54 



Tools, machinery and appliances 4 , 242 94 



Furniture and fixtures 935 29 



Scientific apparatus and specimens 1 ,661 22 



Live stock 3,369 04 



Traveling expenses 12 , 166 55 



Contingent expenses 6 50 



Buildings and land 18,959 48 



Total $236,039 39 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE EXPERIMENT STATION. 



To President F. S. Kedzie: 



The activities of the Experiment Station during this year continued to return 

 to normal after the interruptions of the war period. The appropriation of 

 more funds and the employment of additional workers during the year 

 afforded much relief. Very satisfactory progress was made in equipping and 

 developing the work of the Upper Peninsula Station at Chatham and also 

 the Graham Fruit Station at Grand Rapids. Particulars relating to these 

 important activities are included in department reports or special publica- 

 tions. 



During this year the director's office was given valuable assistance by Mr. 

 E. B. Hill, who aided with the general detail work of the office and assumed 

 the entire responsibility for publications. Publication costs have increased 

 to such an extent as to impose restrictions relative to numbers and sizes 

 of bulletins as well as size of editions. 



The news letter for county agents and extension workers established during 

 this year by the office of the director of extension has become an important 

 medium of conveyance of timely items of information for immediate use by 

 those in the extension service. 



For a period extending back to the time of organization of the Experiment 

 Station, this institution has participated in regulatory work including inspec- 

 tion of fertiUzers and later feedstuffs, fungicides and insecticides as well as 

 the direct or indirect supervision of orchard, nursery, and apiary inspection. 

 With the termination of the present fiscal year all thes^ activities have been 

 transferred to the Department of Agriculture, established by an enactment 

 of the last Legislature. 



Especial mention should be made of the achievements and results of the 

 ('rop section ]:)y way of development of new varieties which have been placed 

 in the farmers' hands in a satisfactory way through cooperation with the 

 experiment association. 



The following statement includes the funds disljursed during the year 

 indicating their source : 



