NEW YORK. 137 



scale (with popular edition); 274, Director's report for 1905; 275, 

 Apple districts of New York, with varieties for each; 27G, Varieties 

 of strawberries and cultural directions (with popular edition) ; 277, 

 The Bang method of controlling tuberculosis, with an illustration of 

 its application (with popular edition) ; 278, Varieties of raspberries 

 and blackberries, with cultural directions (with popular edition) ; 

 279, Potato spraying experiments in 1905 (with popular edition) ; 

 the Annual Report for 1903, part 2, vols. 1 and 2, the apples of New 

 York; and the Annual Report for 1904. 

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



United States appropriation, Hateli Act .$1, J500. 00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 500.00 



State appropriation 79,500.90 



Total 81.500.00 



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. 



During the year the station's high standard of efficiency has been 

 fully maintained. Through its excellent sj^stem of popular bulletins 

 and demonstration enterprises, as Avell as through its close relations 

 with the federated agricultural organizations of the State, its influ- 

 ence as a factor in improving agricultural methods and conditions 

 continues to be more and more widely felt. 



Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca. 

 Department of New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. 



L. H. Bailey, M. S.. Dirrctor. 



The year at the Cornell Station has been mai-ked by development 

 in all lines, additions to buildings and equipment, and enlargement 

 of the working staff. With the completion of the new buildings, 

 for which the last legislature appropriated $300,000, the college of 

 agriculture and station will be adequately housed, and recent acquisi- 

 tions of farm land provide much more suitable experimental fields 

 than those heretofore available. T. L. Lyon, formerly of the Ne- 

 l)raska Station, has been added to the staff to give especial attention 

 to studies on soil fertility, and H. J. Webber, in charge of the ])lant 

 breeding investigations of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has been 

 secured to take charge of the work in experimental plant biology. A 

 plan of reorganization has been decided upon, under which the Fed- 

 eral funds are to be devoted exclusively to experimental work by a 

 staff entirely relieved of other duties. The departments thus far 

 organized tmder this plan are agronomy, chemistry, and entomology, 

 the three cooperating for the present mainly in the study of ques- 

 tions bearing upon the improvement of timothy, including specific 



