MAINE. Ill 



The station staff has taken part in the farmers' institute work, 

 tauglit at the summer normal school for teachers, and accompanied an 

 industrial train run by one of the railroads, delivering addresses on 

 farm topics along the route. The equipment and buildings of the 

 North Louisiana Station have been greatly improved (PI. V, fig. 1). 



The following publications of the stations have been received dur- 

 ing the past fiscal year : Bulletins 80, Analyses of commercial fertil- 

 izers and Paris green; 81, Results of experiments in production and 

 marketing fruits and vegetables, and canning fruits and vegetables 

 on a small scale, at the North Louisiana Station ; 82, The Texas fever 

 cattle-tick situation, and the eradication of the tick by a pasture rota- 

 tion system; 83, Results of further experiment with nodule disease 

 of the intestines of sheep — the "bare-lot '' method of raising lambs; 

 84, Texas fever; and 85, Blackleg; Bulletins of the Lousiana geo- 

 logical survey : 1, Underground waters of Louisiana ; 2, Terrestrial 

 magnetism and meridian-line work; and 3, Establishment of tide- 

 gauge work; and the Annual Reports for 1901 and 1905. 



The income of the stations during the past fiscal year was as 

 follows : 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act .$1, .KX). 00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 5, 000. 00 



State appropriation 15, 000. 00 



Balance from previous year 1,5, 612. .33 



Refund J 550.00 



Farm products 3, 385. 33 



Miscellaneous .3, .332. 26 



Total 57. 879. 92 



Reports of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds have been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Department and have been approved. 



The Louisiana stations are devoting their attention more largely 

 to research investigations, and the increased funds at their disposal 

 will enable them to extend their fields of usefulness along several 

 new lines. A progressive policy is being followed and should yield 

 results of decided scientific and practical value. 



MAINE. 



Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono. 



Department of the University of Maine. 



C. D. Woods, Sc. D., Director. 



The Maine Station continues to make a special feature of its poul- 

 try investigations, which, as carried out during the year, have in- 

 cluded questions in both breeding and management. A comparison 

 of the chick-producing capacities of eggs from hens that had been 



