148 REPOET OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



year Prof. Luther Foster, vice-director, agriculturist and horticul- 

 turist of the Wyoming Station, was appointed to the position. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



Fees 5.30 



Farm products 466. 51 



Total 15,471.81 



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 32-37 and the Annual Reports for 1899 and 1900. 



Bulletin 32, pp. 18. — Grasses and Forage Crops. — The importance 

 of combining live-stock and crop interests is discussed, brief notes are 

 given on grasses considered worthy of trial in New Mexico, and sev- 

 eral culture and feeding experiments are reported in connection with 

 a discussion of the following forage crops: Japanese barnyard millet, 

 sorghum, Kafir corn, millo maize, alfalfa, and cowpeas. 



Bulletin 33, pp. 17. — Notes from the San Juan Substation. — This 

 contains a report on the successful culture of sugar beets and sorghum 

 on alkali patches or "chico spots;" a brief account of an attempt to 

 remove the soluble salts from an alkali spot by means of open ditches 

 and flooding; results of rotation and fertilizer experiments with oats 

 and corn; observations on tomato blight; brief statements concerning 

 a practical test of the feeding value of several nonsaccharine sorghums; 

 and notes on Collops bipunctatus as an enemy of the Colorado potato 

 beetle. 



Bulletin 31^, pp. 51^. — Principles of Water Analysis as Applied to 

 New Mexico Waters. — This bulletin reports and discusses the results of 

 the sanitary and mineral analyses of 148 samples of stream, spring, 

 and well waters examined in the laboratory of the station during the 

 past eight years. 



Bulletin 35, pp. 27, figs. 10. — Observations on Insects. — Brief popu- 

 lar notes on a large number of injurious insects. 



Bulletin 36, pp. 4. — Announcement to New Mexico Ranchmen and 

 List of Bulletins. — Brief statements relating to the equipment and 

 work of the station, a subject list of station publications, and the 

 organization list of the station. 



Bulletin 37 , pp. 20. — Notes on the Food of Birds. — The economic 

 relation of birds to agriculture is discussed in a general way, many 

 special instances of the harmful or beneficial action of birds being 

 cited, and notes are given on the feeding habits of a number of birds 

 in New Mexico. 



