ILLINOISo 101 



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 



Balance from previous yeai* 4.58.41 



Farm products 1, 460. 71 



Total 21, 919. 12 



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 Idaho Station is doing valuable work of a practical character. 

 Through the agency of its publications, demonstration experiments, 

 the organization of an agronomy association, and fanners' institute 

 work it is exerting an important influence on the agricultural practice 

 of the State. It is handicapped to some extent in carrying on ad- 

 vanced work by the difficulty of securing and holding well-equipped 



men. 



ILLINOIS. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Illinois, Vrbana. 



Department of the TTniversity of Illinois. 



Eugene Davenport, M. Agr., Director. 



The Illinois Station has continued to receive generous appropria- 

 tions from the State for special work upon practical problems, and 

 the demonstration of the results. The live stock and soil investiga- 

 tions each receive $25,000, and the orchard, crop, and dairy investi- 

 gations $15,000 each, making a total of $95,000. The work in these 

 lines is planned with the aid of advisory committees chosen by the 

 respective State associations, an arrangement which is found to be 

 very successful and advantageous. 



Experiments are carried out at various places in the State upon 

 land rented from farmers for the purpose, rather than in direct coop- 

 eration with them, and practical demonstrations are made in dairying 

 wherever the opportunity offers. This work is in addition to that at 

 the station, but forms a quite prominent feature. 



The department of agronomy has provided two additional fields 

 during the year, one in Dekalb County on typical brown silt loam 

 soil of the early Wisconsin glaciation, primarily for crop experiments, 

 and the other in Wliiteside County on soil typical of the deep 

 loess silt, chiefly for soil investigations. Studies of the effects of 

 crop rotation, legumes and catch crops, farm manure, phosphorus 

 and potassium in various combinations are being undertaken on these 

 fields. The w^ork on soil fertility is carried out at the station and at 

 about twenty-three other places in the State. A somewhat extensive 



