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The last legislature appropriated $8,000 for substations, antl such 

 stations are now established at Caldwell, Gooding, and Clairstone, 

 and it is proposed to establish a fourth at Idaho Falls. The legis- 

 lature also appropriated $4,000 for new barns, $-2,000 for improving 

 the herd, and $i^.")00 for laboratory e(iuipinent. 



The following Adams fund projects were actively prosecuted dur- 

 inir the year: Causes of deterioration and improvement of wheat, 

 duty of water (at Caldwell), and apple breeding, and considerable 

 progress Avas made in the investigation of these subjects. Investiga- 

 tions on the utilization of orchard by-products were suspended for 

 a large part of the year. A beginning was made upon a new project, 

 viz, the relation of salt and acidity to the keeping quality of butter. 



In addition to these Adams fund investigations the station has 

 carried on important work on the improvement of varieties and 

 methods of culture of cereals and strawberries; the farmers vege- 

 table garden and methods of culture of various truck crops, particu- 

 larly tomatoes, onions (in orchards), and cantaloups; fertility and 

 rotation tests with wheat, oats, and potatoes; development of a 

 shorthorn dairy herd; the determination of moisture in butter and 

 the shrinkage of butter in shipping: the chemical composition of 

 fruits, feeding stuflFs, and soils; comparison of liquid and dust sprays 

 and ditferent strengths of lime-sulphur wash for apple scale; selec- 

 tion of corn for early maturity; thinning and girdling apples; and 

 control of cabbage insects. Extensive irrigation experiments were 

 • carried on as in previous years at Caldwell in coo])eration with the 

 irrigation investigations of this Office. Cooperative experiments with 

 farmers in the improvement of wheat were also made. 



Station men participated to some extent in farmers' institutes and 

 extension work during the year, and in February, 1001), a demon- 

 stration train similar to that sent out in northern Idaho the previous 

 sununer was run for about a month with great success through 

 southern Idaho. 



The following publications were received from the station during 

 the year: Bulletins GO, Conditions affecting the production of de- 

 natured alcohol in the Northwest; 61, Spraying experiments for 

 1007; G2, Dry farming in Idaho; G3, Babcock test for butter fat; G4, 

 Planting api)le orchards in Idaho; and 65, Alaska wheat investiga- 

 tion; and the Annual Keport for 1007. 



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

 follows : 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $1.^,000.00 



United Stiitos aijpropriation, Adams Act 11, (H)0. 00 



Farm priducts 2, 0.")2. 17 



Total 28, 052. 17 



