ARKANSAS. 83 



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 ,— 10.396. IG 



Farm products 1. 041. 56 



Miscellaneous, includiuj; balance from previous year — 325. 19 



Total 31,762.91 



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. 



Active and aggressive w^ork characterizes the operations of the 

 Arizona Station, and it is having a strong influence on the develop- 

 ment of agriculture in the Southwest. 



ARKANSAS. 



Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Fai/ettcville. 



Department of the University of Arkansas. 



W. G. ViNCENHELLER, Director. 



During the past year the Arkansas Station has completed investi- 

 gations along several lines. The experiments in rice growing under 

 irrigation, which have been carried on in Lonoke County in coopera- 

 tion with this Office, are reported to have been an unprecedented suc- 

 cess. About 5,000 acres have been planted with rice this year by the 

 farmers of the county. The horticulturist has brought to a close his 

 studies of the improvement of old orchards. His results show that 

 the failure of orchards in Arkansas is due chiefl}^ to soil exhaustion. 

 By the use of fertilizers and cover crops, and by pruning and spray- 

 ing properly conducted, a production of 90 per cent of first-class 

 fruit may be expected even from orchards 15 years old. The chemist 

 reports that analyses of foods on the market indicate that 47 per 

 cent of such articles are adulterated. The veterinarian has completed 

 some preliminary investigations with anthrax, together with a study 

 of the Aalue of vaccination with the commercial vaccines as a pre- 

 ventive, and the efficacy of field sanitary work in its control. Addi- 

 tional investigations as to the toxic effects of cotton-seed meal for 

 swine and poultry indicate that adult poultry may be fed cotton-seed 

 meal in large proportions without detriment, but that this can not 

 safely be done with hogs. 



Investigations now under way include tests of various grain and 

 forage crops, corn breeding, crop rotation, dietary studies of private 

 families and student organizations in the vicinity, a chemical method 

 for destroying stumps, and studies of the digestibility of the forage 

 crops of the State, and of the origin and chemical composition of the 



