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ferent agricultural processes under special plantation conditions, and 

 also the relative suitability of different varieties in diversified 

 environments. 



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

 follows : 



Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association $65,517.72 



Fees 7, 842. 97 



Total 73, 360, 69 



The publications of this station received during the year were as 

 follow^s: In the division of agriculture and chemistry, Bulletins 13, 

 Field experiments with sugar cane; 14, Irrigation experiments of 

 1905, and 15, Fertilizer experiments, 1897-1905 ; from the division of 

 entomology, Bulletin 1, Parts 1-10, Leaf hoppers and their natural 

 enemies; from the division of pathology and physiology. Bulletins 1, 

 The inspection and disinfection of cane cuttings; 2, Preliminary 

 notes on root disease of sugar cane in Hawaii, and 3, Gumming of 

 the sugar cane ; and the report of the station committee for 1905. 



IDAHO. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Idaho, Moscow. 



Department of the University of Idaho. 



H. T. French, M. S.. Director. 



The work of the Idaho Station has been seriously interfered with 

 by the disastrous fire in March, 190G, which destroyed the main 

 building of the university wdth most of the laboratories and collec- 

 tions and the library. The university authorities took steps toward 

 rebuilding at once, and one of the new buildings under way is to be 

 for the use of the agricultural department of the university and the 

 station. In the meantime, notwithstanding the difficulties of the 

 situation, considerable progress has been made by the station except 

 in its laboratory work, and the investigations in several lines have 

 expanded. The irrigation investigations in cooperation with this 

 Office have been developed, especially on the cultural side, the inves- 

 tigations being confined very closely to questions relating directly 

 to the use of irrigation water in the production of crops, with only 

 secondary consideration of engineering problems. Considerable 

 attention is to be given, as heretofore, to the study of general condi- 

 tions and methods employed in the regions being opened up for 

 settlement by new irrigation projects, as in the Snake River Valley; 

 but efforts will be made to concentrate the more strictly experimental 

 work at Caldwell in southern Idaho, where the station has secured 

 a half section of land well suited to experiments in both dry and 

 irrigation farming. 



