108 RirPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



more important Kansas feeds will also be taken up, and studies of 

 the causes and treatment of blind staggers and the efficacy of a 

 remedy for hog cholera recently devised by the station. 



The publications of this station received during the year were 

 Bulletins 129, Kansas mammals in their relation to agriculture; 130, 

 Steer feeding experiment VII, 1903-4; 131, Care of dairy utensils; 

 132, Western feeds for beef production ; 133, Alfalfa seed, its adulter- 

 ants, substitutes, and impurities and their detection ; 134, The alfalfa 

 seed crop and seeding alfalfa ; and 135, Grading cream ; and the 

 Annual Report for 1905. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal j'ear was as 



follows : 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act .*p 15, 000. 00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 5,000.00 



State appropriation for substations 15, 000. 00 



Balance from previous year 679. 19 



Miscellaneous, including farm products 2, 081. 16 



Total 37,760.35 



Reports of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds have been rendered in accordance with the schedules pre- 

 scribed by this Department and have been approved. 



A horticultural building has been completed, costing, with green- 

 houses and equipment, about $50,000. The college continues to in- 

 crease very rapidly in size, causing very heavy demands for instruc- 

 tion work from the station men. Additional instructors are urgently 

 needed to allow more opportunity for fundamental research work. 

 In some cases problems of a more scientific nature could be substi- 

 tuted for the extensive field tests carried on at present to good 

 advantage. 



KENTUCKY. 



Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Lejuu/ton. 



Dep:irtiHciit of the A^ricuitural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. 



M. A. ScovELL, M. S., Ph. D., Director. 



The Kentucky Station continues to give much attention to tobacco 

 investigations, partly by breeding experiments for the production of 

 a leaf with smaller waste and with special qualities, and also by 

 studies of the burn or wilt, which during the last two years has caused 

 damage to at least 20 per cent of the crop while drying in the barn. 

 An organism has been discovered winch produces the disease when 

 inoculated into the leaf, and its prevention is being studied in the 

 field and in a specially constructed series of eight incubators, in which 

 conditions of lieat, moisture, and ventilation can be controlled at will. 

 The latter will also be used in studies of the prt)duction of desirable 



