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mal industry and dairying is being extended; experiments in feeding 

 calves have been started; feeding and grazing experiments with pigs 

 and dairy cows are being continued, and records are being kept of 

 the growth made on pasturage by a large number of common cattle and 

 of the cost of maintaining .a small station herd of beef cattle. A 

 study of the fertilizer requirements of cotton on most of the typical 

 soils of the State has been inaugurated. The veterinarian is contin- 

 uing studies of infectious cerebritis, the toxic effect of cotton seed and 

 cotton-seed meal, and the inoculation of cattle for Texas fever. The 

 Texas-fever investigations at present are for the purpose of determin- 

 ing whether young stock are more immune than old, and whether 

 native stock is born immune. The tests of native trees, the experi- 

 ments with grasses and those for the improvement of cotton will be 

 continued by the botanist. In connection with the biological survey, 

 work on the fungi occurring in the State has been continued, as have 

 also studies of the bacterial rot of tomatoes and two bacterial diseases 

 of the cabbage. The veterinary department has a new brick building 

 for dissecting purposes, and the chemical department is established in 

 its new laboratory. The director of the station has recently published 

 a revised and enlarged edition of Gardening for the South, by W. N. 

 White. At the end of the year the horticulturist and biologist resigned 

 to accept a position as specialist on fungi in the Botanical Garden in 

 New York City, and was succeeded by Dr. E. M. Wilcox, of the Okla- 

 homa college and station. 



INCOME. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows: 



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



Fees for the analysis of fertilizers 8, 741. 95 



Farm products 895. 37 



Total 24,637.32 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States fund 

 has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed by this 

 Department, and has been approved. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of this station received during the past fiscal year 

 were Bulletins 109-113, Index to Volume 8, and the Annual Report 

 for 1900. 



Bulletin 109, pp. 15. — Strawberries.— Descriptive notes and cultural 

 data are given on 34 varieties grown at the station, with suggestions 

 regarding the establishment of a strawberry plantation. 



Bulletin 110, pp. 39, figs. 8. — Grapes. — A general discussion of the 

 culture of grapes under the headings of soils and planting, training 



