88 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



interest has been aroused in this and in the growing of forage plants 

 and grasses for the purpose. In this connection experiments are being 

 made with different kinds of pasture grasses and clovers for sheep, the 

 sheep being hurdled on small tracts. The sugar-beet investigations 

 have included cooperative experiments with 80 farmers in the Payette 

 Valley, an irrigated district in southern Idaho, for the purpose of 

 testing the economic value of the sugar beet in that region. In May 

 of the present year phylloxera was discovered on grapevines at Julietta 

 and prompt quarantine measures were taken. The station has begun 

 investigations of the codling moth in cooperation with the Division 

 of Entomology of this Department. The State has given the uni- 

 versity $50,000 for the erection of a girls' dormitory and a science 

 hall, and $1,000 a year for two years to support farmers' institutes. 

 During the year a piggery (PI. II, fig. 2) was erected on the station 

 farm and other minor improvements were made. In the department 

 of chemistry Dr. Charles A. Peters succeeded Dr. Avery, and in 

 that of irrigation engineering Dr. Charles N. Little, late of Leland 

 Stanford Junior University succeeded Arthur P. Adair. 



m INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000 



Farm products 1, 500 



Total I 16,500 



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 24-27. 



Bulletin &£, pp. 18. — Cattle Feeding. — Crop Test's. — -A feeding ex- 

 periment with 12 steers, to determine the profit in fattening steers, 

 under local conditions, is reported, and notes and tabulated data are 

 given on the culture and test of varieties of potatoes, millet, and rape 

 at the station. 



Bulletin %5, pp. 11. — The Composition of Arsenical Insecticides. — 

 Results of analyses of 19 samples of Paris green obtained from dealers 

 in different parts of the State, with notes on various other arsenical 

 insecticides. 



Bulletin %6< pp. 12. — Crude Petroleum. — The Elm Louse. — The 

 Pear-leaf Blister Mite. — Spraying experiments with crude petroleum 

 for the destruction of San Jose scale and plant lice are reported and 



