PORTO RICO. 149 



The publications of this station received during the year were as 

 folloAvs: Bulletins 71, Relative values of feeding stuffs; 72, Experi- 

 ments in growing Sumatra tobacco under shelter tent, 1903 ; 73, Dis- 

 tillers' dried grains r. cotton-seed meal as a source of protein; 74, 

 Methods of steer feeding ; 75, Forage and soiling experiments, 1904 ; 

 76, Variety tests of wheat, oats, and potatoes; and 77, Small fruits 

 in 1905. 



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



TTuited States appropriation. Hatch Act ifir), 000. 00 



United States approin-iation. Adams Act 5,000.00 



State appropriation 1,835.0") 



Fees l-*^. 049. 55 



Farm products 3, lOG. 55 



Miscellaneous 893.93 



Total - — - 38,885.08 



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 Pennsylvania Station has been able to maintain a high grade 

 of efficiency, although laboring under the disadvantage of prolonged 

 delay in putting into effect certain contemplated plans of reorgani- 

 zation. 



PORTO E,ICO. 



Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station, Maijaguez. 



Under tbe supervision of A. C. True. Director, Office of Experiment Station*?, 

 United States Dejiartment of Agriculture. 



D. W. May, ;\I. Agr., Special Agent In Chnrrir. 



The work of the Porto Rico Station has been devoted chiefly to 

 agricultural and horticultural crops, their insect and fungus pests, 

 and various lines of animal husbandry, with such attention as has 

 been possible to problems relative to the use of fertilizers, soils, drain- 

 age, farm machinery, forestry, etc. Two changes have occurred in the 

 staff, the appointment of W. V. Tower, of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cidtural College, to the vacancy in entomology and plant pathology, 

 and the resignation of H. C. Henricksen as horticulturist, followed 

 by the appointment of M. J. lorns, of Cornell University, to this 

 position. 



During the year the tobacco industry has greatly developed in the 

 island, and the acreage and quality of the crop have been much in- 

 creased. The station has introduced the White Burley type from 

 Kentucky, which has been found to grow vigorously and produce 

 heavy yields. The improvement of Porto Rican coffee, both by fer- 

 tilization and the introduction of foreign types for which there is 



