f)4 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Tlie Utah Station roroivod :iii iipjiropriation, under which it has 

 Avorkod the past year, of $.").()()() for pul)iicalions, $10,000 for drv- 

 farniin<if invest ijrat ions, $11,000 for fruit investigations, and $7,500 

 for irri<];ation and (haiiuige investigations. Wyoming appropriated 

 $7,500 for experiments in dry fariuing. 



Special appropriations were also made to the Minnesota Station of 

 $1,000 each for soil, horticultural, noxious weed, and entomological 

 investigations, $G,000 for hog cholei-a work, $(),000 for a denatured 

 alcohol plant. $3,500 for the breeding of field crops, $2,000 for drain- 

 age studies. $2,000 for tobacco experiments, $400 for ]ilant diseases, 

 $3,500 for the distribution of entomological charts in public schools, 

 and $10,000 for the establishment and maintenance of a poultry 

 department. The two substations are given $11,500 and $14,000, 

 respectively. A tract of 2.200 acres of land in Carlton County, Minn., 

 has been given by private interests for experimental work in forestry, 

 and the State has appropriated $2,500 a year for maintenance of a 

 forestry station, together with $1,500 for experiments in the use of 

 preservatives for timber. 



In New York the last legislature appropriated $10,000 to stud}^ the 

 grape industry in Chautauqua County and determine what is needed 

 for its improvement. A tract has been leased for ten years in the 

 expectation that the appropriation will be renewed. Horticultural, 

 plant disease, and insect surveys are being made as a preliminary 

 step. The work is under the state station at Geneva. 



The milling and grain interests in Kansas have pledged $5,000, 

 to which the college will add an equal amount, to be used in the 

 maintenance of a new division of milling industry. This division 

 will investigate the condition of wheat in the fields, insect pests at 

 all stages, damage due to weather, and similar problems. An experi- 

 mental baking plant will be operated for testing the bread making 

 capacity of flours from different kinds of wheat and for conducting 

 technical experiments in bread making. 



The North Dakota legislature appropriated $5,000 for the study 

 of milling properties of wheat and flour, and the United States Paint 

 Manufacturers' Association donated $1,500 for a study of paints, 

 particularly their wearing quality on various types of lumber, the 

 influence of inert material or extenders, the effect of diluents in oil, 

 and the use of water. Other state appropriations w^ere as follows: 

 $30,000 for a veterinary building, $3,000 for a state serum institute, 

 $2,500 for seed inspection, $2,400 for the biennial period of demon- 

 stration farm work, $10,000 for the biennial period for instituting 

 the Hettinger substation, and $3,000 for walks. 



The interest and cooperation of the Pennsylvania Millers' State 

 Association has enabled the station in that State to begin investi- 

 gations on the milling and baking properties of Pennsylvania grown 



