1914.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 31. 5 a 



years, to $15,000, as provided by the Legislature of that year, 

 became effective. The Legislature of 1913 passed an act in- 

 creasing the annual State appropriation for investigation $5,000 

 per year for five years, beginning Dec. 1, 1913. 



Other sources of income to the station have remained practi- 

 cally unchanged, and the gradual increase in the amount re- 

 ceived from the State provided by the act just referred to will 

 hardly suffice to enable the station to increase the scope of its 

 work with the constantly broadening horizon and to meet the 

 rapidly increasing demands upon it for service. 



The federal appropriations have remained unchanged for 

 three years. The amounts received from products sold, for 

 labor for other departments of the institution, for chemical 

 work and cow testing are subject to variation from year to year 

 and cannot be estimated with entire safety in making up the 

 annual budget. It is true, however, that the aggregate usually 

 reaches a considerable sum. The amounts received during the 

 past year are shown in the general table. The receipts from 

 the sale of cranberries produced- at the substation in Wareham 

 were exceptionally large, as the crop was the most abundant pro- 

 duced since it has been the property of the station. 



Attention is called to the fact that the fees received for the 

 inspection of commercial fertilizers and the State appropria- 

 tion for the execution of the feed law are almost entirely re- 

 quired in meeting the expenses connected with our control work. 

 The amended laws now upon the statute books, however, pro- 

 vide that unexpended balances may be used in case of the fer- 

 tilizer control work for investigations in relation to the use of 

 manures and fertilizers, and in the case of the feed law for 

 investigations in relation to foodstuffs and the feeding of farm 

 animals. The balances so expended during the past year have 

 been : — 



From the fertilizer inspection, $516 16 



From the feed law ai^propriation, ..... 350 00 



