106 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The equipment of a new dairy farm will provide for additional 

 work in animal production. Extensive feeding experiments are now 

 under way in pork production. Comparisons are being made between 

 pasteurized and nonpasteurized milk with reference to the spread of 

 tuberculosis, between Avhole and ground corn, and between corn, 

 shorts, and tankage. The dairy section has carried on an educational 

 butter test open to the creameries of the State, and has continued its 

 Avork on the moisture content and keeping qualities of butter. 



An investigation of commercial feeding stuffs by the chemical secr 

 tion and the State board of agriculture indicates the necessity of leg- 

 islation regulating the sale of these products. The entomologist is 

 making a mosquito survey of the State, and the botanist a plant- 

 disease survey. Other Avork in these departments includes the life 

 history of the codling moth and other insects, seed adulteration, the 

 apple rust, and the bacteriological examination of water supplies. 



Bulletins 81, Experiment in beef production ; 82, The principal 

 soil areas of Iowa; 83, Quack and wheat grasses; Some soil-binding 

 grasses of Iowa ; 84, The cedar apple fungi and apple rust in Iowa ; 

 and 85, Spraying calendar; and a revision of Bulletin 77, Selecting 

 and preparing seed corn, have been received from the station during 

 the year. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows : 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 5,000.00 



State appropriation 31, 509. 36 



Individuals 100. 00 



Farm products 9, 821. 82 



Miscellaneous 1, 515. TO 



Total 02, 946. 94 



Reports of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds have been rendered in accordance with the schedule prescribed 

 by this Department and have been approved. 



The Iowa Station is making decided progress and its outlook is 

 exceedingly promising. Its policy of further difl'erentiating the 

 duties of the college and station staff should result in increased 

 efhciency, especially in i-esearch, and through the extension staif 

 the station should be in an excellent position to nuiko its findings 

 immediatelv available to the farmers of ''^•e State. 



