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new projects were started and nnich assistance was nriven to private 

 individuals and communities in ascertaining the feasibility of estab- 

 lishing drainage systems. 



Investigations on the "big head " of sheep were continued in coop- 

 eration with the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Department. 



The following publications were received from this station dur- 

 ing the fiscal year: Bulletins 103, Milling qualities of wheat, and 104, 

 The storage of winter precipitations in soils, and the Annual Keport 

 for 1900. 



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



Unitod States appropriation, Hatch Act .$!;"), OOf). 00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 11,000. UU 



State appropriation 9, 024. 92 



Farm products, including balance from previous year 4, 631. 48 



Miscellaneous, including balance from previous year — 987.50 



Total 40, 643. 90 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance w'ith the schedules prescribed 

 by this Department and has been approved. 



The more settled condition of affairs which prevailed at this station 

 during the year was evident in the increased efficiency of both the 

 scientific and the practical work. "\A1iile making valuable contribu- 

 tions to many of the great practical problems of Utah agriculture, 

 the station is not neglecting the fundamental scientific inquiries neces- 

 sary to establish sound practice. 



VERMONT. 



Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington. 



Department of University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. 



J. L. Hills, Sc. D., Director. 



The lines of work of the Vermont Station have not changed mate- 

 rially during the year, neither have there been any changes in build- 

 ings nor striking additions to the equipment. On the station staff, 

 however, many changes have occurred. C. R. Pettis, consulting 

 forester, was succeeded by A. F. Hawes as forester of the station on 

 April 1. The place of N. J. Giddings, assistant botanist, who 

 became plant pathologist at the West Virginia Station, was filled by 

 B. F. Lutman. R. E. Vaughan, assistant horticulturist, was called 

 to the chair of agronomy in the Mount Hermon School, Mount Her- 

 mon, Mass., and was succeeded at the station by J. W. Wellington. 

 H. A. Edson was advanced from assistant botanist to bacteriologist. 

 Since the close of the fiscal year several other resignations have taken 

 place. L. R. Jones, botanist of the station for twenty years, has 

 resigned to take effect February 1, 1910, to accept the position of 



