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stuffs; Circulars 15, Cost of testing pure-bred cows; and 10, Seeding 

 mowings; and Meteorological Bulletins 234-246. 



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

 follows : 



United States approiiriation. Hatch Act $15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 11,000.00 



State appropriation 13. 500. 00 



lialance from previous year, state appropriation 7. 529. 52 



Fees 5. 210. 00 



Farm products 2. 387. 57 



Miscellaneous 4, 825. 17 



Total 59. 452. 20 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Department and has been approved. 



This .station continues to cover a wide field of effort, which in- 

 cludes many subjects of special importance to the agriculture of the 

 State. The growth of the college work will soon make additional 

 provision necessary in some departments if the station work is to 

 continue to develop. 



MICHIGAN. 



Experiment Station of Michigan State Agricultural College, East Lansing. 



Department of Michigan State Agricultural College. 



R. S. SiiAW, P.. S. A.. Director. 



During the year a number of changes were made in membership 

 of the station staff and in the organization of the work at the 

 Michigan Experiment Station. As a part of the extension reorgani- 

 zation of the agricultural work, divisions of animal husbandry, dairy 

 huhbandrv. soils, and farm crops were established with H. W. Nor- 

 ton. A. C. Ander.son, J. A. Jeff'ery, and the director in charge of 

 these respective divisions. H. J. Eustace, expert in fruit storage in 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, was appointed 

 horticulturist, L. R. Taft, consulting horticulturist, and Dr. W. J. 

 I)cal was reappointed botanist. Other recent appointments include 

 the following assistants: M. A. Yothers. entomolog}'; F. A. Spragg, 

 farm crops; C. B. Collingwood, wlio resigned later in the year, 

 chemistry; G. B. Schafer and Misses Z. Northrop and L. M. Smith, 

 bacteriology; and J. B. Dandeno. l)otany. Other appointments were 

 O. K. White as fiehl agent in horticultural extension work, and A. R. 

 Potts for similar work with soils and field crops; and C S. Robinson 

 as research chemist in place of S. L. Jodidi. who resigned to accept 

 a similar position in the department of soils at the Iowa Station. 



The construction of the new agricidtural building, to be occupied 

 by the station and the college, made good progress and when com- 



