MARYLAND. 113 



assistant soil physicist, owing to a decision of the station authorities 

 to discontinue its regular soil work, will not be filled. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



Farm products 4, 440. 08 



Balance from previous year 98. 72 



Total 19,538.80 



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 65-74 and the Annual Report for 1900. 



Bulletin 65, pp. 37, figs. 19. — Insecticides, Fungicides, and Spraying 

 Apparatus. — A popular account of the preparation and use of the more 

 important insecticides and fungicides, descriptive notes on spraying 

 apparatus, and a spray calendar. 



Bulletin 66, pp. 1^1^, maps 2. — The Occurrence and Composition of 

 Lime in Maryland, together with the Results of Experiments in Testing 

 its Use in Agriculture. — This bulletin includes a general discussion of 

 the relation of lime to agriculture, the action of lime on soils, the time 

 and methods of apptying lime, methods of determining the need of 

 lime, descriptions of different kinds of lime used in agriculture, the 

 occurrence and composition of lime in Maryland, including analyses 

 of 121 samples of limestone, 2 of oyster shells, 27 of burned lime, 5 of 

 gas lime, and 90 of marl; and detailed accounts of several series of 

 experiments with lime made at the station since 1889. 



Bulletin 67, pp>. %b,pls. 8. — The Culture and Handling of Tobacco. — 

 Among the topics treated are the methods of selecting, grading, pack- 

 ing, and topping Maryland tobacco; varieties for Maiyland and meth- 

 ods of improving them; uses of green manure for supplying humus 

 and improving the yield and quality of tobacco, fertilizers for tobacco, 

 root system of the tobacco plant, methods of tillage, and the relation 

 of original and natural vegetation to the adaptability of soils for tobacco 

 culture. 



Bulletin 68, pp. 29. — Fertilizer Experiments with Different Sources 

 of Phosphoric Acid. — An account of experiments begun in the spring 

 of 1895 on tenth-acre plats to test the comparative availability of 

 double superphosphate (soluble and reverted), dissolved boneblack, 

 dissolved South Carolina rock, iron and alumina phosphate (reverted), 



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