NEW YORK. 135 



The publications of this station received during the year were Bul- 

 letins 54, Soil moisture investigations for the season of 1904, and 55, 

 Tuberculosis in cattle and tuberculin tests of the station herd; and 

 the Annual Reports for 1903 and 1904. 



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



United States appropriation, Hatcli Act $15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 5,000.00 



Farm products 1, 971. 07 



Miscellaneous 1. 050. 00 



Total 23.021.07 



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 vice-director has recentl}^ been appointed superintendent of 

 farmers' institutes and cooperative experiments, and will spend the 

 greater part of the year in traveling over the Territory organizing 

 this work. Agricultural organizations of Spanish-speaking families 

 have been formed at Las Cruces and Mesilla Park, which have proved 

 very successful. The station is also an active participant in the 

 newly organized Territorial Horse Breeders' Association. The num- 

 ber of agricultural students in the college is growing, and although 

 the institution is still handicapped by inadequate funds, appreciation 

 of its work seems to be incceasing. 



NEW YORK. 

 New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, 

 W. H. .Jordan, D. Sc, Director. 



Progress in investigation at the New York State Station has been 

 mainly in the direction of extension and development of well-estab- 

 lished lines pursued for a number of years. During the year an 

 elaborate monograph on apples of Xew York in two volumes was com- 

 pleted, and some monographic work on other fruits is contemplated. 

 Among other subjects engaging the attention of the horticulturist 

 are dwarf apples, orchard tillage and fertilization, spraying, breeding 

 of .small fruits, Mendel's law as applied to tomatoes, and miscellane- 

 ous greenhouse experiments. An investigation which promises to 

 give especially interesting results is a comparison of tillage and 

 sod for orchards. 



The efficiency of soil inoculation for legumes, especially alfalfa, 

 and the best methods of culture of the latter crop are being tested 

 in different parts of the State. Tests of the quality of commercial 

 cultures for inoculating legumes were completed during the year. 

 The cause and prevention of undesirable flavors and of rusty spot 



