104 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The income of tlu' .station diirin^^ tlic past liscal year was as follows: 



T'nitod Stntos approj)riati(m. Ilatdi Act $1.". 000. 00 



Initetl Slalt's approiiriatioii, Adams Act 11,000.00 



State ai)propriation 102, 500. 00 



State appropriation, balance from previous year D. 0S2. 00 



Farm product.s 14, .ITO. 05 



Farm products, balance from i)revious year 11,407.08 



Total 103, 56.5. 1.3 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance Avith the schedules prescribed 

 1)V this Department and has been approved. 



The work of the Illinois Station continues to develop along both 

 practical and scientific lines, and a large amount of investigation 

 is in progress. The extensive equipment and ample resources are 

 powerful factors in promoting the efficiency, and are at the same 

 time evidence of how the efforts of the station are appreciated by 

 the public. 



INDIANA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of Indiana, Lafayette. 



Department of Purdue University. 



Arthur Goss, M. S., A. C, Director. 



The year at the Indiana Experiment Station was marked by exten- 

 sive additions to the equipment of the institution and by the advent 

 of greater assistance in the form of increased appropriations by the 

 State. The new station building (PI. IV, fig. 1) was equipped, dedi- 

 cated, and occupied during the year, and the last legislature increased 

 the appropriations for the institution from $25,000 to $75,000 an- 

 nually. Of this amount $15,000 is to be used for soil and crop 

 improvement, $10,000 for dairying, $5,000 for poultry work, $10,000 

 for other live-stock interests, $5,000 for the investigation of hog 

 cholera and other animal diseases, and $10,000 for horticultural 

 exiDcriments. Of the remainder of the approi)riation, $10,000 is to 

 be available for general exj^enses and $10,000 for extension work. 

 Part of the appropriation will be taken for the purchase of some land 

 for the exclusive use of the station, and from the state fund for 

 crop and soil investigations a new building for seed and fertilizer 

 work is being provided. 



FeAv changes took place in the station staff. P. H. Crane was 

 appointed assistant in dairy field work at the station, and C. Cutler, 

 of the Vermont Station, as assistant state chemist in the feeding- 

 stuffs control work. 



The Adams fund projects of the station were carried on system- 

 atically, and a new one on the factors influencing condensed milk was 



