134 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The publit'iitions of tlie station received diiriiiir the year wei'e as 

 folhnvs: Bulletins 110, Keport of the work at the Holly Spriiifrs 

 Station for 1007; 111, Experiments in feedinir dairy cows; 112, Silajre 

 V. hulls and meal; 113, Cotton experiments, li)OT; 114, Inspection 

 and analyses of cotton-seed meal on sale in ^lississippi; 115, Inspec- 

 tion and analyses of commercial fertilizers on sale in the State; 116, 

 Varieties of cotton, 1908; 117, Cotton culture in ISIississippi ; 118, 

 Clearinir pine lands; 119, Report of the work at the Delta Station 

 for 1907-8; 120, Farmers' institute bulletin 1007-8; 107 (rev.), Pork 

 production at the Delta Station; Circulars, June, 1908, The insect 

 2)est law; 25, Insj^ection and analyses of connnercial fertilizei's on 

 sale in the State; 26, Inspection and analyses of commercial ferti- 

 lizers on sale in the State; 27, Inspection and analyses of connnercial 

 fertilizers on sale in the State; 28, Inspection and analyses of com- 

 mercial fertilizers on sale in the State; 29, Inspection and analyses 

 of commercial fertilizers on sale in the State; and Annual Reports 

 for 1906, 1907, and 1908. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year Avas as follows: 



United States appropriation, Ilatcli Act $1, "3. (too. 00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 11,000.00 



State appropriation for snbstations 19,150.00 



Farm products, including substations 13,907.90 



Fees 130. 00 



Miscellaneous, including substations 4,398.49 



Total 0,3, 58G. 39 



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 work of the Mississippi Station has been atfected by changes 

 in i^ersonnel and by the transfer to it of responsibility for the collega, 

 farm of about two thousand acres. A result has been the carrying 

 on of large commercial operations which have been a drain on the 

 time of the station men. There should be a more definite segregation 

 of the farm operations, even when they are connected with the grow- 

 ing of feed for station animals, and an arrangement for the manage- 

 ment of such operations which will relieve the men in charge of 

 experimental work. In some lines, notably the poultry department, 

 the condition as to experimental work has been unsatisfactory, and 

 in other directions the experimental work needs to be strengthened 

 and put upon a more active and efficient basis. 



The extension work in the State is organized as a separate branch, 

 the three substations are doing an important work for their respective 

 localities, and the opportunity for aggressive and high-class work at 

 the main station along a number of advanced lines should be excellent. 



