198 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The inconio of tlio station diiriiig the past fiscal year was as 

 follows: 



Stnlf Miiin'oiirlatioii $5,000 



State boanl of agriculture and imniigratiou 5, OfX) 



Total 10, 000 



The IcK'atioii of the Virginia Truck Station is most favorable to 

 the establishment of many lines of work with all kinds of vegetable 

 and garden crops, and careful investigation can not fail to lead to 

 valuable results. 



WASHINGTON. 



Washing'ton Agricultural Experiment Station, I'ullman. 



Department of tlie State College of Wasliinirton. 



K. W. Thatcher, B. S., M. A., Director. 



Reorganization, with a view to the more complete differentiation 

 of college and station work, was perfected during the year, and the 

 activities of the station were considerably enlarged, with consequent 

 changes in personnel. H. B. Humphrey, formerly of Leland Stan- 

 ford Junior University, was appointed plant pathologist during the 

 year; C. C. Thom, of Guelph, soil physicist, with E. L. Peterson as 

 assistant; W. T. McDonald, formerly of the Oklahoma Station, ani- 

 mal husbandman; G. A. Olson, of the Wisconsin Station, and W. L. 

 Hadlock, assistant chemists; A. Carlyle, assistant cerealist ; Rex N. 

 Hunt, assistant botanist; and W. H. Hein, assistant horticulturist. 

 W. H. Lawrence, superintendent of the Puyallup substation, was 

 appointed plant pathologist to study plant diseases in western Wash- 

 ington. A library assistant for the station was provided. The di- 

 rector of the station was made superintendent of farmers' institutes, 

 with O. M. Olson as deputy. 



Extension work has largely been turned over to a new department 

 for this purpose and is participated in only incidentally by station 

 men. New lines of extension work during the past year were farming 

 demonstration trains, which were very largely attended and enthu- 

 siastically received, and demonstration farms which are being estab- 

 lished at representative points throughout the State, under the direc- 

 tion of a supervisor of demonstration farms (H. AV. Sparks) ap- 

 pointed for this purpose. This work is supported by a biennial state 

 appropriation of $17,500. Biennial appropriations of $4,000 and 

 $2,500 were made by the last state legislature for cereal investigations 

 and cooperative experiments in dry farming and irrigation, respec- 

 tively. 



A new barn was built, the greenhouse was enlarged, the additional 

 farm land recently acquired was brought under cultivation, and a 

 considerable amount of live stock was added to the station equipment 



