15G REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



of ciirnations and tlie silver top of June grass; 8, The bacterial flora 

 of Clu'tldar cheese; and i), A Myoospluerella wilt of melons; Circulars 

 8, Dodder in alfalfa seed; 9, Keinedies for the San Jose scale and 

 directions for their use; and 10, Lime and liming; and the Annual 

 Iveport for IDOT, pts, 1, 2, and 8. 



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



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $1,500.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 1,100.00 



State appropriation 122.328.09 



Balance from proviou.s year, state appropriation 7,230.78 



Total 132,158.87 



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 New York Experiment Station is in a very prosperous condi- 

 tion and enjoys the generosity of the State and the support of the 

 state commissioner of agriculture, Avho works hand in hand with the 

 institution. The members of the staff devote themselves entirely to 

 station work and enjoy the advantage of having no college duties. 

 The station is strongly organized and equipped in a number of de- 

 partments, and is prosecuting its w'ork in an active and efficient 

 manner. 



Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca. 



Department of New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. 



II. J. Webber, Ph. D., Acting Director. 



The Cornell College and Station during the year continued to 

 advance their educational and research w'ork in agriculture, and to 

 increase materially the experimental equipment in several depart- 

 ments. The new greenhouses for the college, for which the last 

 legislature appropriated $30,000, were under construction during the 

 year and when completed two of them, each 23 feet by 50 feet, will 

 be used by the station. The plans of these greenhouses provide for a 

 building with about 10,000 square feet of glass, in addition to labora- 

 tories and potting .sheds with about 6,800 square feet of floor space. 

 A new barn for which $25,000 had been appropriated was under con- 

 struction during the j-ear. This barn will be for station use in so 

 far as experiments are conducted by the dairyman. The concrete 

 tanks for soil investigation, described in the last annual report of 

 this Office, were completed during the year and partially brought 

 into use. 



M. V. Slingerland, for many years connected with the station as 

 entomologist, died March 10, 1909, He had been an energetic and 



