LETTER OE TRANSMIHAL 



Office of Experiment Stations, 

 Washhu/toi,, D. C, April 30. 1010. 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the annual report of 

 the Office of Experiment Stations, the publication of which is au- 

 thorized by joint resolution of the Fifty-eighth Congress, second 

 session. This includes a report on the work and expenditures of the 

 agricultural experiment stations established under the act of Con- 

 gress of March 2, 1887, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908, in 

 compliance with the following provision of the act making appro- 

 priations for this Department for the said fiscal year : 



The Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial 

 statement required by section three of the said act of March second, eighteen 

 hundred and eighty-seven, shall ascertain whether the expenditures under the 

 appropriation hereby made are in accordance with the provisions of said act, 

 and shall make report thereon to Congress. 



There is also a report for the same year on the receipts and expendi- 

 tures and work of the stations under the act of Congress of March 16, 

 1906, in accordance with section 5 of that act. 

 Very respectfully, 



A. C. True, 



Director. 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



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