EXPERIMENT STATION. 



REPORT OF SECRETARY AND TREASURER. 



The following account shows the receipts and expenditures of the Experiment 

 Station for the year ending June 30, 1904: 



Dr. Cr. 



July 1, 1903— To balance on hand $2,427 6S 



July 10, 1903 received from U. S. Treasury 3,750 00 



Oct. 12, 1903 received from U. S. Treasury 3,750 00 



Jan. 8, 1904 received from U. S. Treasury 3,750 00 



April 16, 1904 received from U. S. Treasury 3,750 00 



June 30, 1904 license fees on 107 brands commercial 



fertilizers 2,140 00 



miscellaneous receipts 249 55 



farm receipts 2,376 73 



from State appropriation, So. Haven. 500 00 



from State appropriation for U. P. 



Experiment Station 5,000 00 



U. P. Experiment Station, receipts.. 290 78 



South Haven Experiment Station 



receipts 831 24 



June 30, 1904 — By disbursements as per vouchers filed in 



the office of the State Auditor Gen- 

 eral $24,934 11 



Juno 30, 1904 balance on hand 3,881 87 



$28,815 98 $28,815 98 



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. 



DISBURSEMENTS OX ACCOUNT OF U. S. APPROPRIATION. 



Salaries: 



Director and administrative officers. No. employed 6. $2,427 00 



Scientific staff, No. employed 7 3.670 30 



Assistants to scientific staff. No. employed 3 657 94 



r- $6,755 24 



Labor: 



Monthly employes, 2; average rate, $45.00 $1,080 00 



Monthly, weekly, daily and hourly employes 2,356 22 



3,436 22 



Publications: 



Half tones, mailing list, etc $67 94 



67 94 



Carried forward -. . . . $10,259 40 



