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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 5,000.00 



Farm products 694.10 



Miscellaneous 556. 54 



Balance, state appropriation and miscellaneous 5,155.18 



Total 37, 405. 82 



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 work of the Virginia Station, under its more stable organiza- 

 tion, continues to grow in popular favor. The mailing list has in- 

 creased from 13,000 in 1907 to 23,000 in 1909, and the correspondence 

 with farmers in 1909 was nearly twice as extensive as in the previous 

 year. Interest in the station and its work is steadily increasing. 



Virginia Truck Experiment Station, Xoifolk. 



Cooperating with the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and the United 



States Department of Agriculture. 



T. C. Johnson, B. S. Agr.. M. A., Director. 



At the Virginia Truck Station a laboratory building and barn 

 and a residence for the director were completed during the year. 

 ,C. S. Heller was appointed to the station staff as assistant horticul- 

 turist, and C. H. Popenoe, of the Bureau of Entomology of this De- 

 partment, was detailed for certain cooperative work. 



The work of this station, as its name implies, relates to truck crops 

 and includes fertilizer experiments, plant breeding work, seed tests, 

 studies of insects and plant diseases, the comparison of different in- 

 secticides and fungicides, rnd similar lines of work. 



.Cooperative work was carried on with the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry in the study of malnutrition of truck crops, the sweet potato, 

 and the peanut ; with the Bureau of Entomology in the study of 

 cabbage and spinach insects; and with the Virginia Station on cer- 

 tain fungus diseases of spinach. 



The director of the station cooperated with the state department 

 of agriculture in conducting farmers' institutes in the truck-growing 

 portions of the State. 



Two circulars were received during the year: Circulars 1, Treat- 

 ment for scab and early blight on potatoes. Mildew on cucumbers 

 and cantaloups; and 2, Preliminary report on potato germination 

 troubles in 1909. 



