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and the formation and management of meadows and pastures in coop- 

 eration with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. 



The State legislature at its last session made liberal appropriations 

 to the university, over $100,000 being provided for the agricultural 

 department. Of this, $40,000 is given for a dairy and live-stock building 

 and equipment, and an equal amount for a horticultural, entomological, 

 and botanical building and equipment, both of which will be of direct 

 benefit to the station in furnishing quarters and equipment for its 

 different departments. The appropriation also carried $3,500 for 

 maintenance of the station, to be used as a printing fund to carry out 

 the provisions of the law authorizing the printing of station publi- 

 cations by the State printer, and $5,000 for work in dairying, including 

 the establishment of a chair of dairy husbandry in the college of 

 agriculture. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



Farm products 2, 676. 99 



Fees 1,373.30 



Balance from previous year 2, 711. 25 



Miscellaneous 20. 15 



Total 21,781.69 



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 49 and 50. 



Bulletin 1ft, pp. 21, pis. 2, figs. 4~ — The Apple Orchard. — An 

 account of experimental work conducted at the station during 5 years 

 in regard to the preparation of the soil for apple orchards and the 

 relation of cultivation and care to the development and growth of apple 

 trees, together with a discussion of different crops for growing in 

 orchards and the value of different cultural methods. 



Bulletin 50, pp. 31, pis. 7, figs. 3. — A Test of Spray Nozzles. — A 

 comparative study was made of 30 kinds of nozzles from different 

 manufacturers, with reference to the following points: Height of 

 spray or distance which the spray could be thrown perpendicularly 

 with various pressures; width, shape, and distribution of the spray at 

 the point where it -was considered most efficient; size of the drops; 

 amount of liquid discharged by each nozzle in a given time; liability of 

 the nozzle to clog; liability to dribble; durability, and method of 

 attachment. 



