118 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The chemist has analyzed the breakfast foods and published his re- 

 sults in bulletin No. 211, which is calling renewed attention among all 

 classes of people to the importance of a wise selection of breakfast foods 

 when both economy and health are considered. The station has no 

 war against this material nor is its function to insist that the makers 

 shall confine the remarks on the outside of the carton to either the 

 truth or to the realm of possibility. The digestion work carried on with 

 cattle during the past winter to determine the influence of the factor 

 of succulence in the digestibility of a ration, awaits reconfirmation be- 

 fore publication. The results are interesting and give a value to that 

 very element which has not been sufficiently considered. 



The entomologist has devoted his attention very largely to the insects 

 afl'ecting tree fruits, resulting in the publication of special bulletin No. 

 24. Coming as this bulletin does, at a. time when the enemies of our 

 orchards seem to be in the ascendency, its appearance is most opportune 

 and cannot but result in better methods in handling our orchards. 



Farther comment on the reports of the heads of the several divisions 

 hereto annexed is not needed. 



C. D. SMITH, 



Director. 

 Agricultural College, Mich. 

 June 30, 1904. 



To the President: 



The annual report of the Upper Peninsula Experiment Station for 

 the crop season of 1903 is printed elsewhere in this volume and I need 

 not here ofl'er you an extended report of the work accomplished at that 

 sub-station, farther than to say that the clearing has continued during 

 the early months of 1904 and that at the thirtieth of June, 1904, the 

 entire space between the house and barn and the railroad is cleared 

 and imju^oved, awaiting certain ditches before it will be in the very 

 highest state of cultivation. 



I may add by way of comment that the influence of the station upon 

 rural life in the Upper Peninsula is becoming more and more marked. 

 The press is standing by the work we are doing and the people are re- 

 lying upon us for advice as to crops and care of live stock. 



Yours respectfully, 



C. D. SMITH, 



Director. 



