128 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Bacterial associations in the sourinfj^ of milk; 43, The solvent action 

 of soil hactoiiii u\n)n the soluble phosphates of raw l)one meal and 

 natural raw rock phosphate; 45, Sprayiiifr calendar; 4('), Keport of 

 the South Ilaveii Substation for IDOT; 47, Corn improvement; and 

 48. Keport of the South Haven Substation for 11)08; Circulars 1, 

 Alfalfa; i2, The Babcock test; 3, Corn: Selection, storing, curing, 

 and testing for seed; 4, Methods of breeding for the improvement of 

 Michigan cattle. Organization of cooperative cattle breeders' asso- 

 ciations in Michigan; and 5, Inoculation with nodule-forming 

 bacteria; and the Annual Keport for 15)08. 



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

 follows : 



fnitetl Stiites approprintion, Ilatfb Act $];', 000. 00 



United Statos ap|)ropi-iatiuu. Adams Act 11,000.00 



State appropriation : 14, 148. 10 



Fertilizer, lieense.s, fees 3,' 802. 50 



Farm products, including substations, etc 1, 200. 76 



Total 45, 217. IMi 



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. 



With the aid of the state funds, Avhich are appropriated in part 

 for the maintenance of substations and in part for experiments along 

 special lines, and Avith the further assistance of a well organized 

 extension department in the college, the Michigan Station is placed 

 in favorable circumstances for accomplishing much of fundamental 

 importance and practical value to the different agricultural pursuits 

 of the State. 



MINNESOTA. 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota, 



University Farm, 8t. I'aul. 



Department of the University of Minnesota. 



A. F. Woods, M. A.. Director. 



A number of changes took place in the station staff during the year, 

 the principal one being the appointment of J. W. Olsen, state super- 

 intendent of public instruction as dean and director, following the 

 resiirnation of E. AV. Randall, who entered commercial life. Since the 

 close of the fiscal year J. W. Olsen also resigned and has been suc- 

 ceeded by A. F. Woods, assistant chief of the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try of this Department. During the year numerous changes also 

 occurred in the corps of assistants. 



State appropriations of interest to the station were made by the 

 last legislature as follows: $15,000 for the completion and equipment 



