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

 follows : 



United States appropriation. Ilatcli Act $15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 5,000.00 



State appropriation 95, 000. 00 



Fees 890. 00 



Farm products 708.84 



Miscellaneous, including balance from previous year 1,418.91 



Total 118, 016. 75 



Reports of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds have been rendered in accordance with the schedides pre- 

 scribed by this Department and have been approved. 



The Illinois Station is in a thoroughly prosperous condition. It 

 is making a special effort to keep in touch with the farmers of the 

 State, and the practical demonstrations in their midst, together 

 with the farmers' institutes, special trains, and the like, have brought 

 about their cordial support and confidence. In the further devel- 

 opment of its work, researches of a more fundamental nature will 

 doubtless be needed. Extension work through the college of agri- 

 culture continues to be vigorously developed, and a new instructor 

 has been added to cover the subject of agriculture in the schools. 



INDIANA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of Indiana, Lafayette, 



Department of Purdue University. 



Arthur Goss, M. S., A. C, Director. 



The liberal State appropriations to the Indiana Station have 

 enabled it to continue the expansion and development of its work, 

 especially those phases relating to specific problems of rather imme- 

 diate practical importance and demonstrations of crop improvement 

 by better .seeds and methods. Fertilizer, spraying, variety and plant 

 breeding work has been carried on at the station, at county poor 

 farms, and in a. cooperative way with over TOO farmers representing 

 all counties of the State. A number of very successful special trains 

 have been run, besides farmers' excursions to the station. During the 

 winter the .station held a corn growers and stockmen's convention in 

 the nature of a short course for farmers, lasting a week, vv'ith an 

 attendance of about 1,200 farmers. 



Among the investigations now under way are those by the botan- 

 ical department of the plant rusts, particularly that of flax, for which 

 the full life cycle has now been completed. The chemists have experi- 

 ments in progress on rendering fertilizing materials available in the 

 soil, and especially the effect of irrigation. The requirements of 



