EXPERIMENT STATION REPORTS. 



117 



DISBURSEMENTS OF EXPERIMENT STATION MONEYS — OTHER THAN RECEIVED FROM UNITED STATES 



TREASURER. 



Salaries . 

 Labor. 



Publications 



Postage and stationery 



Freight and express 



Heat, light, water and power 



Chemical supplies 



Seeds, plants, and sundry supplies. 



Fertilizers 



Feeding stuffs 



Library . 



Tools, implements and machinery. 



Furniture and fixtures 



Scientific apparatus 



Live stock 



Traveling expenses 



Contingent expenses 



Buildings and land 



Balance on hand., 



Total. 



$2, 092 55 



8,135 69 



36 76 



113 25 



683 31 



21 



161 



1,869 91 



ICO 85 



4,491 88 



169 13 



154 17 



3 50 



557 35 



7,206 85 



1,770 88 



17 98 



2,497 21 



77 

 79 



$30,084 83 

 8,603 82 



$38,688 65 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE EXPERIMENT STATION. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



About the end of March, 190S, Director C. D. Smith resigned and left 

 for Brazil to assume the duties of president of an agricultural college 

 at Piracicaba, St. Paulo. At this time I was appointed Director with 

 Dr. C. E. Marshall as Scientific and Vice-Director, hence my term of 

 office has extended over but one quarter of the year which this report 

 is supposed to cover. In large measure this year's work has been a 

 continuation of that mentioned in the Director's report for 1907. As 

 the various divisions of the Experiment Station are submitting indi- 

 vidual reports, reference Avill be made only to the agronomy work which 

 has been under the direct management of the director. 



During the year the following bulletins were issued viz. : 



Bulletin 248 — Fertilizer Analyses. A. J. Patten, August, 1907. 



Bulletin 249 — Protection of Buildings from Lightning. A. R. Sav/- 

 yer and L. J, Smith, August, 1907. 



Bulletin 250 — College Farm Buildings. R. S. Shaw and J. A. Jeffery, 

 October, 1907. 



Bulletin 251— Insects of 1907. R. H. Pettit, March, 1908. 



Special Bulletin 38— Thrips on Oats. R. H. Pettit, July, 1907. 



Special Bulletin 39— Pollination of Forced Tomatoes. S. W. Fletcher 

 and O. I. Gregg, October, 1907. 



Special Bulletin 40— Report of South Haven Sub-Station for 1906. 

 L. R. Taft and F. A. Wilken, April, 1907. 



Special Bulletin 41 — Report of Upper Peninsula Sub-Station for the 

 years of 1905-G. L. M. Geismar, April, 1907. 



Special Bulletin 42 — Bacterial Associations in the Souring of Milk. 

 Charles E. Marshall and Bell Farrand, March, 1908. 



Special Bulletin 43. The Solvent Action of Soil Bacteria Upon the 

 Insoluble Phosphates of Raw Bone Meal and Natural Raw Rock Phos- 



