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tion has enabled the station to add a department of soil chemistry and 

 bacteriology. For this new line of study the station has employed a 

 special officer and is fitting up a laboratory with chemical and bacteri- 

 ological apparatus. The station has erected a new silo for the study 

 of summer silage and built an addition to the cattle barn (PL V, fig. 1), 

 and the college has added to the equipment of the farm a new 

 dairy building which will be used largely for experimental purposes. 

 The biologist has again taken up the study of the oyster, and the ento- 

 mologist is studying mosquitoes. Cooperation with this Office in irri- 

 gation investigations has been continued, and several new lines of 

 work in cooperation with this Department have been undertaken, 

 notably with the Bureau of Chemistry, on methods of analyzing insec- 

 ticides and on the influence of environment on the sugar content of 

 muskmelons; and with the Bureau of Soils, on soil investigation, and 

 on various problems in making soil surveys and base maps. The 

 inspection of fertilizers and of nurseries has been continued under 

 State laws. 



INCOME. 



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



State station: State appropriation (fiscal year ended October 31, 



1901 ) $19, 000 



College station: United States appropriation 15, 000 



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 144—149. 



Bulletin 144, pp> ^ P^ s - 16 •> fi9 s - 13- — Live Covers for Country 

 Homes. — A popular treatise on the more common hardy climbing vines 

 used in this country for ornamental purposes and shade for houses and 

 other buildings. 



Bulletin lift, pp. 52. — Analyses and Valuations of Fertilizers. — A 

 discussion of the cost, valuation, and purchase of fertilizers, home 

 mixtures, special fertilizers, etc., and analyses and valuations of 47 

 samples of standard raw materials, 300 brands of complete fertilizers, 

 17 samples of home and special mixtures, 25 samples of ground bone, 

 and 31 samples of miscellaneous products. 



Bulletin 1^6, pp. 20. — Crude Petroleum v. the San Jose or Perni- 

 cious Scale. — A general summary of the results of experiments with 

 crude petroleum as an insecticide against the San Jose scale conducted 

 at the station since 1897. 



Bullet in lift, pp. 8, figs. 2. — The Angoumois Grain Moth. — A 

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