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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 field work at the station is being brought together on a single 

 large tract of land, on which it is hoped to erect suitable buildings. 

 A plant house for the winter work of the botanist is also much needed. 

 Durinff the vear the college and station work have been well dif- 

 ferentiated. The number and grade of the agricultural students are 

 increasing. The farm mechanics laboratory is being developed, and 

 considerable machinery has been contributed to it by manufacturers. 



TJTAH. 



Agricultural Experiment Station, Loiiaii. 



Department of the Agricultural College of I'tah. 



P. A. YoDER, Ph. D., Din-ctor. 



The year at the Utah Station was marked by the appointment 

 of a new director and numerous changes in the staff, although there 

 has been no material departure from the previous policy and lines of 

 work other than the concentration of activities upon a somewhat more 

 restricted number of projects. Irrigation has continued to be the 

 leading feature. Two small farms devoted exclusively to irrigation 

 experiments have been carried on, one confined to a study of methods 

 of irrigation in cooperation with this Office, and the other used for 

 studies of the water requirements of different crops in cooperation 

 with the Bureau of Plant Industry. Studies of the irrigation practice 

 of the State and of winter irrigation are being made, and alkali recla- 

 mation work near Salt Lake was carried on in cooperation with the 

 Bureau of Soils. 



The dry farming experiments carried on in different parts of the 

 State under State approj^riation have yielded valuable results in 

 showing the localities and conditions under which such farming is 

 likel}^ to be profitable and the methods which should be pursued to 

 insure success. Some of the farms have been more successful than 

 others, and for this reason several of those alreadv established will 

 jirobabW be either abandoned or continued for a time merely as 

 demonstration areas, while others will be developed as centers for 

 more advanced investigation. Additional farms will be established 

 for more fully determining the areas of the State best suited to this 

 character of farming. 



Studies of the codling moth, sugar-beet leaf hopper, grasshoppers, 

 and various strawberry insects have been taken up by the entomolo- 

 gist. Spraying is now being more generally practiced in the State, to 

 the great improvement of the quality of the fruit produced. The 



