160 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



means of dissemination and control of tomato bliglit are being in- 

 vestigated, and there have been studies of sugar-beet seed improve- 

 ment aud variety tests of alfalfa. 



Feeding experiments have been largely directed to the utilization 

 of available Utah feeds for horses, cattle, sheep, and swine. The 

 poultry department is to be strengthened and made a more prominent 

 feature, and a department of dairying has been established. 



The horticultural work at the Brigham City substation has been 

 given up, but continued as usual at St. George. A new substation has 

 been established at Lehi, which has been used chiefly for variety tests 

 of orchard crops. These substations have been maintained by State 

 a])propriations of $8,000 and $(5,000, respectively, for two years. 



The publications of this station received during the year were Bul- 

 letin 92, Poultry experiments, and circulars giving memoranda of 

 plans for arid farm and irrigation investigations. 



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



United States appropriation. Hatch Act .$15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 5,000.00 



State iipi)ropriation. including substations 21,376.84 



Farm i)roducts. including substations 2,853.38 



Miscellaneous, including balance from pi'evious year — 305.00 



'I'otal 44,(525.72 



Reports of the receipts and expenditures of the United States funds 

 have been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed by 

 this Department and have been approved. 



The Utah Station has suffered from the lack of permanency in its 

 personnel and the difficulty of securing and holding a sufficient force 

 of experts to properly man its various departments. In view of this 

 fact the policy of concentration on a limited number of the most 

 iuiportant lines of work seems especially wise. 



VERMONT. 



Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, liiDi'nintou. 



Department of University of \<M-m(iiit and State AgricuUural College. 



.1. I., llu.i.s. Sc. I).. IHrrctor. 



^y\^\\ a view to expanding and developing the work in dairy hus- 

 bandry at the Vermont Station, C. L. Beach, of the Connecticut Storrs 

 Station, has recently been added to the staff as the head of this depart- 

 ment. Experiments iu hoi-se breeding, using Morgan blood as a 

 l)asis, have recently been iuaugurated in <'ooperation with the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry. The stud now consists of nine animals. A 

 tract of ()5 acres has been acciuired and a breeding bai'u lias been 

 fitted nj). Anoth(M- recent investigation is that of etherization on 



