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and field work in dairying with the Bureau of Animal Industry of 

 this Department. 



The publications of the station received during the year were as 

 follows : Bulletins 79, The relation of steer feeding to farm economics; 



80, Home-grown rations in economical production of milk and butter; 



81, Tick eradication, the life history and habits of the North Ameri- 

 can fever tick, with special reference to eradication; 82, The soy 

 bean, a comparison with the cowpea; 83, Comparison and improve- 

 ment of dairy herds in Tennessee; 84, Sheep and lambs in Tennessee; 

 85, Prevention of hog cholera ; 8G, Experiments with soils, fertilizers, 

 and farm crops : two press bulletins ; and the Annual Report for 1906. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as fol- 

 lows : 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 11, OtX). 00 



Fees 1, 000. 00 



Farm products 8, 058. 55 



Total 35, 058. 55 



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 Tennessee Station has been materially strength- 

 ened in recent years, and is evidently making a distinct impression 

 on the farmers of the State. The conditions in different parts of the 

 State are studied carefully and an effort is made to meet the needs of 

 the State's agriculture in a practical way. AVith increased resources 

 in sight the station has a quite promising outlook. 



TEXAS. 



Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station. 



Department of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. 



H. H. Harrington, LL. D., Director. 



The personnel of the Texas Station underwent few changes dur- 

 ing the year, and the work of the various departments was carried 

 on without the interruptions generally incident to resignations and 

 new appointments. Since the close of the fiscal year, however, two 

 new appointments have been made: R. H. Pond as plant pathologist, 

 and W. Newell, recently state entomologist of Louisiana, as entomolo- 

 gist of the station. C. E. Sanborn, who was entomologist for a .short 

 time during the early part of the fiscal year, was succeeded by G. W. 

 Ilerrick, who left the station near the end of the fiscal year to take 

 up work at the New York Cornell Station. 



Tlie State made an appropriation of $50,000 for the establishment 

 and maintenance for two years of four or more branch stations. Sev- 



