110 REPORT or OFFICE OF KXPKHIMENT STATIONS. 



A report «•!" the ivcTij)!.-. mikI cxpciulitures for the riiited States 

 funds lias been rendered in accoidanee with the sehedules prescribed 

 Itv this Departineiil mikI Iims Ix'cn apjiroved. 



Tlie Iowa Station continues to be in a piosjx'i'ous condition, and to 

 tlo a larire anioiint of ii-cfid work for the benefit of the ajxriculture 

 of tlie State. 



KANSAS. 



Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Munliiittan. 



I >('p;ir1iniMit i/f Kmiisms SImIc Au'riciiltur;! I ('<)lU'}i«'. 



K. II. Webster. M. S.. IHmior. 



A number of chano^es occurred in the station staff, the principal 

 one being in the directorship. E. H. Webster, formerly chief of the 

 Dairy Division of this Department, taking charge as dii'ector January 

 1, 1009. O. A. Stevens, who was appointed assistant botanist, but 

 resigned later in the vear to become assistant in charge of the newlv 

 established seed inspection laboratory at the North Dakota Station, 

 was succeeded by AV. E. Davis. J. C. Cunningham was appointed 

 assistant horticulturists. J. B. Parker, assistant entomologist, T. K. H. 

 Wright, assistant in animal nutrition, and A. Mi3^awaki, assistant in 

 dairying. C. K. McClelland, superintendent of the Fort Hays sub- 

 station, resigned to take effect January 1, 1010. and the station is 

 to be placed in charge of A. M. Ten Eyck. The work at this sub- 

 station is to be materially enlarged. 



The State made an appropriation for the station of $30,000 for the 

 biennimn 1010-11, which is the first state appropriation to be received 

 by it. 



AVork on the different Adams fund projects was conducted during 

 the year, and varying progress was reported. Xo new projects were 

 undertaken. The study of cerebritis in horses received but little 

 attention. Much of the time of the veterinary department was taken 

 up with the construction and equipment of the new veterinary build- 

 ing. The better facilities available for the following year give 

 promise of greater progress. The hog-cholera work was carried 

 forward but no definite results have as yet been obtained. The 

 results of observations with reference largely to the use of horse 

 serum in the treatment of hog cholera were published as a report of 

 progress. 



The entomologist continued his investigations of the Hessian fly 

 and of plant lice injuries to wdieat and corn. A special study was 

 made of the green bug and of methods of controlling the pest by 

 means of a parasite. Special laboratory appliances were devised 

 for this work and field experiments paid for from other funds were 

 conducted as supplementary to this project. 



