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and with the Bureau of Plant Industry in efforts to improve the wheat 

 industry of the Northwest. 



The breeding and testing of varieties of cereals, grasses, millet, field 

 peas, cowpeas, soy beans, «etc, and the distribution of the promising 

 varieties among the farmers for trial have developed into a well-organ- 

 ized system. The dairy division has continued extensive feeding 

 experiments to determine the cost of producing milk and butter and 

 is doing much to demonstrate to the farmers of the State methods of 

 lowering the cost of producing butter. The Minnesota legislature at 

 its last session made an appropriation of $90,000 for the college of 

 agriculture. Of this sum $25,000 has been used in the construction 

 of a veterinary laboratory, $25,000 will be used in erecting a chemical 

 laboratory, $12,000 for an addition to the women's building, and $7,500 

 for a building to be devoted to instruction and experiments in curing 

 meat. Other smaller sums will be used in bettering the dairy equip- 

 ment and erecting barns at both the central station and the substations. 

 The animal husbandman, Prof. Thomas Shaw, has recently published 

 a book entitled Study of Breeds in America: Cattle, Sheep, and 

 Swine. The veterinarian has retired from active management of the 

 veterinary work for the State board of health and is now free to devote 

 his whole time to teaching and experimenting. The station has suffered 

 the loss of its entomologist and botanist, Dr. Otto Lugger, who died 

 near the close of the fiscal year. 



The substations at Crookston and Grand Rapids have been main- 

 tained, as heretofore, with State funds. The work of both substations 

 is local in nature, that of the Crookston substation being confined to 

 problems of the Red River Valley, and that of the Grand Rapids sub- 

 station to forestry and general and truck farming. 



INCOME. 



The income of the station (including substations) during the past 

 fiscal year was as follows: 



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



State appropriation 35, 956. 32 



Farm products 7, 246. 14 



Total 58,202.46 



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 68 and 69, Class Bulletin 8, and the Annual Report for 

 1900. 





