134 EEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



State appropriation 200. 00 



Farm products 3, 549. 04 



Total 18,749.04 



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 22-29. 



Bulletin 22, pp. 1$. — The Resistance of Strawberries to Frost, and 

 Twelve Other Subjects. — A discussion, with original observations and 

 results of experiments, of the following subjects: The resistance of 

 strawberries to frost, potato scab, treatment of seed oats for smut, 

 losses caused by the grain aphis, roup of chickens, the internal chicken 

 mite, lupines as plants poisonous to stock, cattle poisoning by the tall 

 larkspur, poisoning of stock by the water hemlock, ergotism in horses, 

 the poisoning of cattle by smutty oat hay, list of plants of known or 

 suspected poisonous properties which occur within the State, and some 

 native forage plants of the State. 



Bulletin 23, pp. 53, figs. 38. — Injurious Fruit Insects; Insecticides; 

 Insecticide Apparatus. — Brief popular notes on some 15 insects inju- 

 rious to fruits, directions for the preparation and use of the common 

 insecticides, and descriptions of spraying apparatus. 



Bulletin 21+, pp. 38. — Annual Report, 1899. — This includes the 

 organization list of the station; a financial statement for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1899; a report of the director on the work and publi- 

 cations of the station during the year; and departmental reports, that 

 of the horticulturist giving notes on various orchard fruits, an account 

 of a test of the Stringfellow method of root pruning, and results of a 

 test of 61 varieties of strawberries, that of the assistant agriculturist 

 giving data for tests of 66 varieties of wheat, 44 of oats, and 21 of 

 barley. 



Bulletin 25, pp. 7. — Paris Green and london Purple in Montana. — 

 Analyses of 6 samples of Paris green and 2 samples of London purple 

 bought of dealers in the State. 



Bulletin 26, pp. 28, pis. 5, figs. 2, dgms. 2. — Poultry Raising. — The 

 station poultry equipment is described and general statements are 

 made concerning breeds, incubation, buildings, brooders, and similar 

 topics. Tests are reported of the relative merits of a lime-and-salt 

 solution and a solution of water glass for preserving eggs and of the 



