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to canning purposes, and also a variety which will give higher yields. 

 Some phases of this work are being conducted in cooperation with the 

 Bureau of Chemistry of this Department. Feeding experiments and 

 fertilizer trials are ])eing continued. 



In horticulture the principal investigations of the year were on the 

 picking, packing, storing, and marketing of fruits, particular atten- 

 tion being given to the marketing of peaches. The horticulturist 

 accompanied various shipments to a number of large markets in order 

 to determine the relative value of different methods of packing and 

 marketing. Coojoerative studies are being carried on in various parts 

 of the State to determine the effect of potash salts on ajjples, peaches, 

 pears, and plums. The effect of frost on fruit buds is also being 

 studied, and investigations have been made of nitrocultures for beans 

 and peas. 



The veterinarian is continuing his studies on spinal meningitis and 

 the von Behring method of imnnmization against tuberculosis. He 

 is also studying the role of leucocytes and their relation to disease 

 and its control. 



The departments of botany and entomology are occupied chiefly 

 with State inspection work, Ijut some investigations are proceeding 

 on the cause of diseases, life history of insect pests, and remedies. 



The publications included a report and six bulletins. Those re- 

 ceived during the fiscal year were as follows: Bulletins 100, The wild 

 legumes of Maryland and their utilization; 101, Common injurious 

 and beneficial insects of iMaryland; 102, Leucoc^^tes in milk and their 

 significance; 103, Method of tobacco seed selection; 104, Tests of 

 materials for bedding cows; 105, Experiments with fumigating nur- 

 sery stock; IOC); Tlie influence of the size of the grain and the germ 

 of corn upon the plant; 107, 1005 Spraying experiments for the San 

 Jose scale ; and 108, Irish potato diseases. 



Tlic income of the station during the past fiscal year was as 

 follows : 



T'nited States appropriatinii. H;it<Ii Act ^ $1.". OOO. 0(t 



I'liited Statos ai)propriati(^in, Adams Act ."». 00(1. 00 



State appropriatidu 10,000.00 



Farm products 5.182.63 



Balance from previous year 1.208.21 



Total rtO. 800. 84 



Eeports of the receipts and expenditures for the Fnited States 

 funds have been rendered in accordance with the schedules pre- 

 scribed by this Department and ha\e been approved. 



The mailing list now numbers about 20,000, being 46 per cent more 

 tlian that of eight years ago, and the correspondence is increasingly 

 heavy. The State has recently shown a disposition to come more 



