194 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



136, Abstract twontk'th report, 11)00-7 — plant disease, horticulture, 

 Meeds, insects; 137, Abstract twentieth report, 190G-7 — crops, forestry, 

 stock feedin<i:, dairy husbandry; 138, Commercial feeding stuffs; the 

 viai)ility of weed seeds in feeding stuffs; 139, Preliminary statement 

 regarding the forestry problems of Vermont; 140, Commercial fer- 

 tilizers; and 141, ApjDle culture in Vermont; Circulars 1, The bul- 

 letins of the fertilizer control ; and 2, The gipsy and brown-tail moths. 

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

 follows : 



Uuited states approprintioii. Hatch Act $1."), (KM). 00 



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



State appropriation 1,000.00 



Fees 3, 0.S4. 0(5 



Miscellaneous 100. 00 



Total 30, 184. 06 



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 Vermont Experiment Station with its practical and scientific 

 lines of work, pursued either alone or in cooperation, is solving 

 problems of importance to the agriculture of the State, and is yearly 

 becoming a more efficient and valuable aid to the farmer. 



VIRGINIA. 



Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Blacksturg. 



Department of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic 



Institute. 



S. W. Fletcher, Ph. D., Director. 



At the close of the year, N. S. Mayo, recently of the Cuban 

 Station, was appointed animal husbandman, vice W. J. Quick, and 

 H. E. Allen was appointed to succeed A. P. Spencer as assistant 

 in the same department. E. B. P>ed, of the staff, is on leave taking 

 advanced work in soil bacteriology in Germany. W. L. Mallory was 

 appointed assistant in animal husbandry and agronomy for work 

 on Adams fund projects. The dairy division was installed during 

 the year in its quarters in the basement of the new agricultural 

 building. The equipment of this division is now very much better 

 than formerly, and its efficiency in experimental lines is consequently 

 in position to increase. 



Satisfactory progress was made in a number of the Adams fund 

 projects. The horticulturist has under way a large breeding study 

 for the purpose of determining how late blooming varieties of apples 

 may be obtained for use in Virginia, where late frosts often injure 

 the apple crop. A study of the history of fruit bud formation in 



