GEORGIA. 95 



The demand for the station j)ublications has increased during the 

 past year. Cooperation of the horticulturist and animal husband- 

 man with the State associations of fruit growers and live-stock 

 breeders has helped to bring the farmers of the State into closer 

 relations with the station, with mutual benefits. 



The publications of this station received during the year were as 

 follows: Bulletins G8, Japan and hybrid ])lums; GO, Corn culture; 70, 

 Cotton culture; and 71, Some field notes on soil inoculation; and the 

 Annual Report of the station for 1905. 



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, (X)0. 00 



State api)ropriation 1 851.42 



Farm products 2,711.11 



Balance from previous year 2,566.41 



Total 26,128.94. 



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. 



Since the close of the fiscal year a new director has been elected to 

 succeed R. J. Redding, who has been in charge of the station almost 

 from its establishment. 



The agricultural people of Georgia have evidently become awak- 

 ened to the importance of the wide diffusion of agricultural educa- 

 tion as the basis for improved agricultural practice in that State. 

 This is evidenced by the recent passing of a State law providing for 

 the establishment of eleven agricultural high schools and the remark- 

 able liberality of the local communities in providing means for the 

 equipment of these schools, and also by a movement to strengthen and 

 develop the State Agricultural College. 



Since sound agricultural education is based on the facts and prin- 

 ciples established by the careful and thorough experiments and re- 

 searches Avhich it is the business of the agricultural exi3eriment sta- 

 tions to conduct, it is now more important than ever before that the 

 station in Georgia, as well as elsewhere, should be directed and 

 manned by men competent to supervise and. conduct investigations 

 which will steadily add to that knowledge of agricultural problems 

 which the agricultural colleges and schools require to make their 

 courses of instruction thorough and efficient. 



