102 REPORT OP OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



INCOME. 



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



United States' appropriations $15, 000. 00 



Farm products 5, 345. 21 



Balance on hand July 1, 1900 610.69 



Total 20,955.90 



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 99-101 and the Annual Report for 1900. 



Bulletin 99, pp. 56, jig. 1. — Press Bulletins JVos. 35-70. — This con- 

 tains reprints of weekly press bulletins issued by the station from 

 April 5, 1899, to June 26, 1900. The articles are based largely upon 

 the results of experiments at the station. 



Bulletin 100, pp. 59, pis. 5, map 1. — Soy Beans in Kansas in 1900. — 

 Results of cooperative tests with soy beans reported by 292 farmers in 

 75 different counties of the State are presented in condensed form, 

 together with the results of culture and variety tests at the station 

 during 12 years. 



Bulletin 101, pp. 27, pis. 26,^figs. #, dgms. 2. — Notes from the Plum 

 Orchard. — Notes on the different varieties of European, Japanese, and 

 native plums grown at the station, with illustrations of the more 

 prominent varieties; nursery notes on the growth of several varieties; 

 and a diagram showing the period of blooming and ripening of 24 

 varieties. 



Annual Bepwt, 1900, pp. 187, pis. 18, figs. 19, maps *2. — The report 

 proper contains the organization list of the station, a financial state- 

 ment for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, a general review of the 

 work of the different departments, and a subject list of station publi- 

 cations issued since the organization of the station. Reprints of Bulle- 

 tins 90-98 of the station are appended. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The prominence given to experiments in animal production, to the 

 introduction of drought-resisting forage crops, and to breeding and 

 other experiments with wheat and corn shows an appreciation on 

 the part of the station officials of the relation the station investiga- 

 tions should bear to the principal productions of the State. Station 

 work has been considerably disturbed by changes in the staff, losses 

 by fire, and the large amount of college and farmers' institute work 



