INVESTIGATIONS UNDER THE ADAMS ACT. 65 



wheat. The Washington Station received biennial appropriations 

 of $4,000 and $2,500 for cereal investigations and cooperative investi- 

 gations in irrigation and dry farming, respectively. In Missouri 

 $15,000 was provided for the soil survey of the State, which has been 

 in j^rogress for several years. 



Among the special apjiroprintions for making and distributing 

 hog-cholera serum was $1,500 in Michigan, $10,000 in Minnesota, 

 $10,000 in Missouri, $0,000 in Nebraska, and $2,500 in Oklahoma. 



In several instances gifts have been made by individuals, localities, 

 or special interests for experimental work. The establishment of 

 fellowships by business firms for the investigation of specific prob- 

 lems is another new evidence of the interest in agricultural investi- 

 gation. Such a fellowship has been temporarily established at the 

 Cornell Station for investigating the value of commercial lime- 

 sulphur mixtures as fungicides, provided by a firm manufacturing 

 spraying apparatus, Avhich donates $1,500 a year for two years for 

 that purpose. Another industrial felloAvship has been provided for 

 in that institution, limited to two years, and has for its purpose 

 tlie investigation of the diseases of nursery stock, especially fire 

 blight. Care will necessarily need to be exercised in the conduct 

 and publication of such work, to relieve it of any appearance of 

 commercialism, for the stations can not afford to lend themselves 

 to that purpose even Avith contributed funds. 



Provision for printing the station bulletins and reports at state 

 expense is now quite common. This has become an important item 

 with the .stations, in the growth of their work, and without other 

 than the Hatch fund for printing the stations are greatly restricted 

 in giving the publicity desirable to their work. Already the burden 

 for printing is heavy on the Hatch fund, and the Office is restricting 

 the use of that fund more closely by ruling out popular bulletins 

 and those reporting the results of branch and substation work. It is 

 felt that the States should at lea.st do their share in providing for 

 printing, and where they take over that expense entirely the funds 

 for exi)(U'iiuentation v.w conserved to that extent. 



INVESTIGATIONS UNDER THE ADAMS ACT. 



The amount of high-grade investigation under this fund is now 

 large, and the .spirit of the act in providing for original research in 

 agriculture is i-eceiving hearty su|)p()rt. Studies updii about 388 

 projects have been inider way duiing the ]iast year, an average of 

 8 projects per State, the fund being divided in two States. Several 

 projects have been completed, or have i)een transferred to other 

 funds, often at the suggestion of this Office, as not being a{)pro{)riate 

 to the Adams fund in the form which their development was taking. 

 4G045°— 10 5 



