94 KEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPEKIMENT STATIONS. 



(luctod with cabbn'rc. toinntoi's. strawbrrrios. melons, .ind sweet 

 potntoi's. 



Field experiments were carried on aloiiir former lines. Cidture, 

 fertilizer, and variety tests were made with cotton, corn, wheat, and 

 oats. The department of a«!:ronomy has about 00 acres at its disposal 

 for experimental purposes. 



Ill rJanuary, lOtM), a dairy extension dej)artment was ()r<::anized, the 

 dairy division of the l^ureau of Animal Industry, of this Department, 

 cooperatinof with the station in this work. Observations were made 

 on the milk production of difleient cows and other dairy matters. 



The following jiublications were received from this station durint^ 

 the year: Bulletins SO, Cooperative dairy investigations; 81, The 

 effect of carbonates upon nitrilication ; 82, Sugar corn and tomatoes; 

 and 83, The Mendelian and De Vriesian laws applied to cotton Itreed- 

 ing; and the Annual Report for 1008. 



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

 lows : 



United States appropriation. Hatch Act iflo. 000. 00 



I'nitcd States apiiropriation. Adams Act 1 1, 000. 00 



State appropriation 710. 10 



Farm products, includinj; live stocli 4,612.47 



Balance from previous .year, farm products 1,341.09 



Total 32,663.60 



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. 



The Georgia Station is conducted in an orderly way and is follow- 

 ing a number of lines of work of both practical and theoretical 

 importance. 



GUAM. 



Guam Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Under the supervision of A. C. True, Director. Office of Experiment Stations, 



United States Dejiartmeiit of Aj^riculture. 



Joiix I>. Thompson, P>. S., ^itee'ml Agent in Clinrgc. 



The work of the Guam Station during 1909 was largely that of a 

 pioneer nature. Toward the end of the fiscal year John B. Thomp- 

 son, a graduate of the Kansas Agricultural College, who had had 

 several years' experience with the Bureau of Agriculture in the 

 Philippine Islands, was placed in charge of the station and made its 

 temporary disbursing officer. 



Under the direction of H. L. V. Costenoble a tract of land contain- 

 ing about 27 acres was leased and fenced, and considerable effort made 

 toward bringing it into cultivation. This land had formerly been 

 cultivated but had not been so used for several years and had reverted 



