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inent) ; irrio^ation on (lie station farm for vetches, clover, and alfalfa 

 (in cooperation with this Office) ; sniud<rin^ and frost protection of 

 orchards; fertilization and culture of the lojjanberry; varieties of 

 raspberries, l)lackberries, gooseberries, currants, grapes, and filberts; 

 varieties, breeding, irrigation, and cultivation of strawl)erries; varie- 

 ties, culture, and pruning of peaches; standard and dwarf varieties 

 of pears; varieties and j)runing of apples; cover crops versus culture 

 for orchards; grafting Avalnuts; peach spot and celery leaf blight; 

 spraying potatoes; chemical composition of types of Oregon soils; 

 composition of the ground waters of the Klamath Basin and of 

 WiUamette and Columbia River waters throughout the year; com- 

 position of insecticides; mortality of incubator chicks; bacterial con- 

 tent of machine and hand-drawn milk; cheese curing in sausage 

 casings; production of potato tubers by inoculation; methods of 

 brooding chicks; tests of milking machines; variation in the fat 

 content of hand separator cream; intensive dairying with the station 

 herd; solids-not-fat in milk; manufacture of soft cheeses; methods 

 of operation of cream separators; feeding skim milk to dairy calves; 

 and feeding experiments with swine. 



The college and station sent out two large demonstration trains 

 during the year which were well received. One traversed the Willa- 

 mette Valley and the other was operated in southern Oregon. 



A seed-testing laboratory was established at the college in coopera- 

 tion with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. 



The publications of the station received during the year were as 

 follows: Bulletins 97, Comments upon the state fertilizer law; 98, 

 Preserving wild mushrooms; 99, Orchard survey of Wasco County; 

 100, Incubation experiments; 101, Orchard survey of Jackson 

 County; and 102, Digestibility of kale, vetch hay, steamed and un- 

 steamed silage; and Circulars 2, Hints for eastern Oregon farmers; 

 3, Notes on nut culture; and 4, A colony house; A trapnest. 



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



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $15, 000. 00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 11,000.00 



State appropriation 1,566.84 



Miscellaneous 3,041.44 



Total 30,608.28 



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 Oregon Station continues to do much work of great value, and 

 to improve the means of making the results available for the prac- 

 tical use of the farmer of the State. 



