EXPERIMENT STATION REPORTS. 



149 



DISBURSEMBNTS OF KXPERIMENT STATION M0NBT8 — OTHBE THAN EECBIVED PEOU U. B. TREASURER. 



Salaries 



Labor. 



Publications 



Postage and stationery. 

 Freight and express 



Chemicals and laboratory supplies . 

 Seeds, plants and sundry supplies. 



Feeding stuffs 



library 



Tools, machinery and appliances . . 



Furniture and fixtures 



Scientific apparatus and specimens . 



Traveling expenses 



Contingent expenses 



Buildings and land 



Total . 



$4,065 58 



6,895 05 



762 02 



217 25 



144 58 



213 15 



1,218 72 



50 40 



25 41 



71 60 



4 15 

 418 08 

 583 25 



2 00 

 42 53 



$13,713 77 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE EXPERIMENT STATION. 



To President J. L. Snyder: 



The time has now come when further extension of experimentation 

 and scientific research is impossible without additional state aid. The 

 Experiment Station has endeavored to procure and retain a staff of well 

 qualified, energetic workers. During the recent past it has been possible 

 to provide working equipment and salaries such as to enable the work- 

 ers to make satisfactory progress and feel suitably repaid for their 

 sei'vices. The Hatch and Adams funds are now so apportioned that they 

 cannot be further drawn upon to procure additional workers or to in- 

 crease the salaries of the present working force. Therefore unless the 

 the federal appropriations are quite liberally supplemented by state aid 

 during the coming year the activities of the station will be retarded 

 and the retention of the present efficient staff endangered. 



With the exception of a few workers exclusively engaged in research 

 most of our men have double duties involving both college and station. 

 With the rapid increase of students in the Agricultural division we are 

 confronted by the danger of absorption of an undue amount of time on 

 the part of instruction work. This danger has been quite markedly 

 manifest during this j^ear. 



During the year the following publications have been issued by the 

 Experiment Station, viz : 



Bulletin No. 205 — Fertilizer Analyses, by A. J. Patten, O. B. Winter 

 and 0. G. Clippert. 



Bulletin No. 266— Poultry^ House Construction and Yarding, by H. L. 

 Kempster. 



Bulletin No. 267— Michigan Weeds, by W. J. Beal. 



Special Bulletin No. 56 — Tile Drainage, by J. A. Jeffery. 



Special Bulletin No. 57 — Revision of" Special 54, entitled Spray and 

 Practice Outline for Fruit Growers. 



Special Bulletin No. 58— Foul Brood, by R. H. Pettit. 



