141 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Tlie income of t lu* station during the past fiscal year was as follows : 



United States appropriation. Hatch Act if 15. 000. 00 



I'nited States appropriation. Adams Act 5.000.00 



State appropriation, including balance from previous 



year SO. 010. 86 



Fees 140.75 



Farm products, including balance from previous year — 14, 433. 18 



Miscellaneous 1, 713. 93 



Total 110.208.72 



Reiioi'ts ol" the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds have been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 In' this Department and have been approved. 



During the year a special State appropriation, aggregating $55,700, 

 was obtained, some of the items being $0,000 for the publication of 

 bulletins, $5,000 for forestry, $6,000 for animal husbandry, $12,000 

 for entomology, botany, horticulture, and chemistry, and $7,000 for 

 substations. The readiness Avitli which this appropriation was 

 granted indicates the suj)port Avhich the station has gained for its 

 work. Its demonstration and extension activities, including ex- 

 tensive cooperation with farmers in culture and varieties of field 

 crops, spraying, forestry, and other lines, bring its work into close 

 touch Avith the people over the entire State. 



OKLAHOMA. 



Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station, StiUicater. 



Department of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mochanical College. 



W. L. English, R. S.. Direct or. 



The principal work at the Oklahoma Station during the past year 

 has been the preparation for experimental use of the new farm of 

 040 acres, the erection of a ne"\v agricultural building, and the rear- 

 rangement of other buildings. (PI. IV.) The new farm contains al- 

 most all the (liferent varieties of soil found in the State, including 

 both creek bottom and u[)land. The farm as a whole will be carried 

 on largely in a commercial way, in an effort to pay running expenses, 

 l)ut the station has been permitted to select for its use tracts of various 

 kinds. Special attention will be given to studies of the methods of 

 treatment of thin upland soils. An agronomist has been engaged, 

 and experiments have been begun with corn, cotton, alfalfa, oats, 

 wheat. Kafir corn, and castor beans. Pasture experiments are being 

 made with hogs and dairy cattle. 



Mori'ill Hall, the new agricultural building, is a substantial struc- 

 ture of stone and brick, costing Avith equipment about $75,000. In 

 addition to administrative offices and quarters for the agricultural 



