190 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



UTAH. 



Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan. 



Departiut'iit of the Agricultural College of Utah, 



E. D. Ball, Ph. D., Director. 



Tlioro was no fjreat change in organization or policy at this sta- 

 tion during the j^ear. For the first time in a number of years there 

 were no changes in heads of departments. Robert Stewart, chemist 

 of the station, was granted leave during the year for graduate study, 

 and at the end of the year R. S. Northrop, horticulturist, resigned to 

 go into private business. J. R. Ilorton, assistant entomologist, ac- 

 cepted a position in the Bureau of Entomology of this Department, 

 and was succeeded by E. P. Hoff. E. H. Walters was made assistant 

 chemist and P. V. Cardon assistant agronomist. R. A. Hart was 

 transferred from drainage investigations of this Office to the station 

 statf to assist in field work in drainage. 



Appropriations to the college and station aggregating $202,100 

 were made by the last legislature. This is nearly double the total 

 amount granted two years before, and represents the full amount re- 

 quested. The college received $132,000 for maintenance, $20,000 for 

 remodeling the women's building, $3,500 for a veterinary hospital, 

 $2,500 for a stock- judging pavilion, and $600 for an incubator cellar, 

 the last two of which were built during the year. The grant for 

 farmers' institutes w^as increased from $3,000 to $10,000. The sta- 

 tion was given $5,000 for publications, $10,000 for dry-farming in- 

 vestigations, $11,000 for fruit investigations, and $7,500 for irrigation 

 and drainage investigations. 



The Adams fund projects were carried on without material change 

 during the year. The poultry investigations were extended and con- 

 siderable additions made to equipment for the work, consisting of 

 additional colony houses and brooders, egg-turning tables, and pedi- 

 gree breeding apparatus. The construction of an additional incu- 

 bator cellar for experimental purposes was begun. The results of the 

 poultry investigations have brought out a number of important facts 

 regarding the management of incubators (especially carbon dioxid 

 and water supply), methods of feeding, and transmission of egg- 

 laying qualities. The chemical study of the formation and movement 

 of nitrates in the soil was continued, and a cooperative arrangement 

 was made Avith the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department for 

 bacteriological investigation of the subject. The investigations on 

 grasshoppers have been practically completed and a report on the 

 subject is in preparation. Some further work on leaf hopper, con- 

 firming previous conclusions that this insect is responsible for the so- 

 called blight of sugar beets, was carried on. Owing to unfavorable 



