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for additional instruction, and the station received $46,000 for special 

 investigations, as follows: $16,000 for investigations in animal hus- 

 bandly, including feeding experiments; $10,000 for experiments with 

 corn; $10,000 for soil investigations; $10,000 for orchard work, includ- 

 ing the study of insect pests and fungus diseases; $5,000 for dairy 

 investigations, and $3,000 for sugar-beet investigations. The law 

 making the above appropriations provides for the appointment, by 

 certain farmers' associations, of committees to confer with the director 

 of the station on the lines of work to be undertaken, but these com- 

 mittees have no power to dictate as to the details of the investigations. 

 The purpose of the promoters of the measure was to secure coopera- 

 tion between the farmers and the station, and this feature has been 

 given prominence in organizing the work. Investigations of present 

 conditions of agriculture in the State will be followed by cooperative 

 experiments and demonstration work in different parts of the State, 

 while at the same time the staff is engaged in research work at the 

 station. 



In providing the organization to undertake this additional work no 

 new departments were created, but 12 additions to the staff were made. 

 Prof. H. W. Mumford, formerly professor of agriculture in the 

 Michigan Agricultural College, was made chief of the department of 

 animal husbandry, to relieve the director of the details of this work. 

 He will devote his attention to cattle, while an assistant will take up 

 work with horses. In the departments of agronomy, horticulture, 

 botany, and dairy husbandry numerous changes and additions were 

 made, all being along the line of greater specialization. Each depart- 

 ment is given a stenographer and record keeper, and considerable 

 attention is being given to systematizing the keeping of records. The 

 large amount of cooperative work contemplated necessitated the 

 appointment of some one to look after the interests of the station in 

 different parts of the State, and Mr. F. H. Rankin was appointed 

 institute visitor to act in this capacity. From the nature of their 

 work other members of the staff also are compelled to spend much of 

 their time away from the station. The advisory board of the station 

 has been abolished. A new feature in the means for disseminating 

 information is a series of circulars which are prepared from time to 

 time and distributed. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



Fees 350. 00 



Farm products 344. 93 



Balance from previous year 663. 46 



Total 16, 358. 39 



