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pecan diseases, animal feeding, entomological problems, and other 

 minor subjects. 



The station was also active during the year in pursuing cooper- 

 ative work with this Dejnirtment, which included a study of certain 

 insect pests of cereal and forage crops, tests of newly introduced 

 forage plants, sweet-corn breeding, making a plant disease survey 

 of the State, the trial of methods of preserving timber with creosote, 

 the use of hog-cholera serum, and the promotion of the dairy industry 

 of the State. 



The following publications of the station were received during the 

 year: Bulletins 137, Hookworm disease of cattle; 138, Analyses of 

 commercial fertilizers; 139, Milk fever (parturient paresis), its pre- 

 vention and successful treatment; 140, Some conditions influencing 

 cotton production; 141, Treatment of plant diseases and injurious 

 insects in South Carolina ; 142, Stomach-worm disease of sheep and 

 young cattle; 143, Some injurious orchard insects; 144, Celery; 145, 

 Fertilizer experiments with cotton; and 146, Sweet-potato work in 

 1908. 



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



Unitetl States appropriation, Hatch Act $15,000.00 



United States approi)riation, Adams Act 11,000.00 



Farm products, including balance from previous year 5, 077. 18 



Total 31, 077. 18 



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 separation of the station work from that of the college and 

 the change in the equipment incident thereto is working out satis- 

 factorily, and will facilitate to a great degree the progress of the 

 many different lines of work upon which the station is engaged. 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 



South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, lirooJcings. 



South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



J. W. Wilson, M. S. A., Director. 



Tlie work of the South Dakota Station during the year did not 

 indicate any important changes, and the personnel of the staff, with 

 the exception of several new assistants, remained the same as the 

 year before. The state appropriation for substations during the past 

 year was $4,500. A dairy barn with two silos attached was in process 

 of construction. 



Satisfactory progress was made in the various Adams fund proj- 

 ects. In the work on rotations as related to soil fertility, the rota- 



