DELAWARE. 77 



STATION STAFF. 



Geo. A. Harter, M. A., Ph. D., President of the College. 

 Arthur T. Neale, M. A., Ph. D., Dir. and C. L. Penny, M. A., Chem. 

 A ( jr. W. H. Bishop, B. S., Met. 



f. D. Chester, M. S., Myc. H. B. Eves, V. M. D., Vet. 



C. P. Close, M. S., Hort. E. Dwight Sanderson, B. S. A., Ent. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Delaware Station during the past year has been 

 along the same general lines as heretofore, including chemical studies 

 of soils and sugar beets and sorghum, bacteriological studies of soils, 

 field experiments with sugar beets, varieties of sorghum, and forage 

 crops, especially cowpeas and corn grown with cowpeas; feeding 

 experiments; dairy investigations; studies of diseases of animals and 

 plants; horticultural investigations, principally with the sour cherries 

 of America, apples, and pears; entomological investigations, including 

 studies of injurious insects and experiments with various insecticides 

 and different kinds of apparatus for applying the same. The station 

 is cooperating with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department 

 in experiments with cover crops for orchards, and with the Bureau of 

 Chemistry of this Department in studies of the influence of environ- 

 ment on the sugar content of muskmelons. 



Two wings are being added to the main college building and the 

 building is being otherwise remodeled. The cost of the improvements 

 will be at least 125,000. The entomologist of the station will have 

 rooms in one of the new wings, and another room will be especially 

 fitted up for photography. These changes will give more room in the 

 station building for the officers who remain there. Farmers' institutes 

 are managed independently by the three counties in the State, each of 

 which receives from the State $200 a year for this purpose, but mem- 

 bers of the station staff assist in conducting the meetings. At the close 

 of the fiscal year the horticulturist resigned to accept a position in the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, and was succeeded in 

 September by Prof. C. P. Close, of the Utah Agricultural College and 

 Station. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000 



\ 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 47-52 and the Annual Reports for 1899 and 1900. 



