468 



STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Miscellaneous tools, supplies, etc |1,394 55 



Implements and machinery 1,201 03 



Feed and bedding ITS 88 



Crops 2,625 00 



Seeds 176 50 



Cleaning supplies (dairy) 26 75 



Live stock ". 11.268 00 



Total value equipment June 30, 1918 §16,865 71 



. FINANCIAL REPORT. 



The history of tlie Upper Peninsula Experiment Station includes some 

 years during which the State Board of Agriculture, with the limited 

 funds at its disposal, was unable to appropriate as generously as seemed 



SKEI) HOL.se, ice HOLSE AND DAIRY BARN 



desirable for the more rapid development of the Station. Tliree un- 

 fortunate occurrences resulted in withholding from the State Board of 

 Agriculture, during the past ten years, nearly a million dollars which 

 would have been used by the Agricultural College, Experiment Station 

 and Sub-Stations. The first of these was the vetoing of a legislative 

 appropriation bill, the second, the pronouncement as unconstitutional, 

 of a mill tax l)ill by tlie Supreme Court of the State and tlie third con- 

 sisted of the disastrous fire loss of the Engineering building and equip- 

 ment at the College, a little more than two years ago. A perusal of the 

 investments heretofore enumerated is expressive of the interest of tlie 

 Board and the administration of the institution in the Station. For 

 o])erating expenses, land clearing and building, |12,362.67 was appro- 

 j)riated for the year ending June 30, 1917, and for the ensuing year, 

 119,972.72. 



