140 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



mental work and afford excellent opportunities for the study of 

 special problems in soils, farm management, and field and orchard 

 crops in typical localities of the State. 



At the station farm the Avork has proceeded as in previous years, 

 being devoted largely to fertilizers, culture of forage crops, and soil 

 improvement. The agriculturist retired at the close of the year and 

 is now director of the Kansas Station. 



The biologist is making a comprehensive study of the lettuce crop, 

 especially as regards the means of dissemination, soil sterilization, 

 and similar problems. A private plant at Newbern, in the lettuce 

 district, has been placed at his disposal, and experiments are proceed- 

 ing both out of doors and under glass. He is also studying a number 

 of apple diseases which seem to be new, and is continuing demonstra- 

 tion and spraying trials and breeding work for resistance with water- 

 melons, tobacco, and sweet potatoes. The chemist is prosecuting an 

 inquiry into the nitrifying power of different soils for organic and 

 ammoniacal nitrogen. For organic nitrogen, asparagin has been 

 chosen as a body of known constitution. 



In other departments the work is proceeding mainly on the lines of 

 previous years. Special attention is being given to feeding and 

 breeding work with poultry, in which there is a good deal of interest 

 in the State. The dairyman has been testing several methods to con- 

 trol the garlic flavor in milk, stud^ang the acid content as affected by 

 silage, the period of lactation, etc., and is making an inspection of 

 farm daii'ies. The veterinarian has worked almost wholly on Texas 

 fever and has succeeded in eradicating it from 26 of the infected 

 counties. 



The publications of this station received during the year were as 

 follows: Bulletins 190, The formation of nitrates in the soil; 191, 

 y^^fig preservation; 192, Farm dairying; and 193, Spraying mixtures 

 and machinery, when and how to spray; and the Annual Report for 

 1901. 



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



T'nited States appropriation, Hatch Act .$1"), 000. 00 



TTnited States appropriation, Adams Act 5,000.00 



State appr()j)riation a 17, 7S4. 00 



Farm products ;^72. 35 



Total 38, l.W. 35 



Reports of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds have been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Department and liave been approved. 



"Estimated .luniuiit ol State ai)propriatiou for experimental purposes during 

 the liseal year ended December 1, 1!)0(). 



