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EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



Contingent : — 



Freight and express, 

 Telephone, .... 



Fuel, 



Furnishings, .... 

 Books, stationery and postage, 



Total, $1,836 94 



Summary of Disbursements. 



Disbursements on bog account, .... 

 Disbursements on experimental account, 



Total disbursements, 



U,691 55 

 1,836 94 



Tobacco Investigations, 1917. 

 Expenditures {exclusive of Salaries). ''■ 



Fertilizers,^ 



Travel, 



Land rental,' 



Extra labor, 



Cartage, 



Photographic work, 



Stakes, 



Total cost, 



Materials on Hand. 

 1 ,000 pounds high-grade sulfate of potash at $240, $120 00 

 Miscellaneous fertilizers, 8 40 



J,528 49 



$759 11 



128 40 



Net cost of investigations, $630 71 



Owing to illness Director Brooks was given a leave of absence 

 from March 1, 1918. The material for the annual report had 

 been practically all written but not assembled and arranged 

 before this date. 



FRED W. MORSE, 



Acting Director. 



1 Approximate amount for salaries, 81,583.35. 



- One item of $4.31 was not paid out of 1917 apportionment. 



2 The rate of rental was to be $40 per acre for open plots and $90 per acre for shade plots, and 

 this item would be $170; but for 1917 one grower donated the use of 1 acre of land and another 

 the use of one-half acre, reducing rental by 560. 



