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of thin Department in testing sugar beets, and has arranged with the 

 same bureau some work on dairy products. The work on rented land 

 in different parts of the State has followed much the same lines as last 

 year. The inspection of fertilizers, concentrated feeding stuffs and 

 Babcock-test glassware, and the analysis of Paris green and other insec- 

 ticides have been continued. The erection of a house for the director 

 has proceeded and the building is approaching completion. The last 

 legislature also granted an appropriation of $8,500 for repairs and 

 alterations in fitting the present director's house and office for an 

 administration building. The director has recently published a manual 

 on The Feeding of Animals. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $1, 500. 00 



State appropriation 87, 119. 82 



Total 88,619.82 



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 176-196 and the Annual Report for 1899. 



Bulletin 176, pp. 22. — Inspection of Concentrated Commercial Feed- 

 ing Stuffs during 1900. — Text and discussion of State legislation relat- 

 ing to the inspection of commercial feeding stuffs, list of brands 

 licensed, and analyses of 118 samples of feeding stuffs collected in the 

 spring of 1900. 



Bulletin 177, pp. 62. — Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers 

 for the Spring and Fall of 1900. — Contains tabulated analyses of -150 

 different brands of commercial fertilizers. 



Bulletin 178, pp. 6. — Inspection of Babcock Milk Test Bottles. — 

 Requirements of the New York law relative to the testing of bottles 

 used in the Babcock test at creameries and cheese factories, with the 

 results of inspection. 



Bulletin 179, pp. 10, pis. 3. — An Anthracnose and a Stem Rot of 

 the Cultivated Snapdragon. — These two diseases are described and 

 illustrated and the results of spraying experiments are given. 



Bidletin 180, pp. 22, pis. 8, figs. 2 {Popular edition, pp. 8, pis. 2). — 

 Miscellaneous Notes on Injurious Insects. — Economic and biologic notes 

 on the forest tent caterpillar, the fruit-bark beetle, a mealy bug 

 attacking quince trees, two apple-leaf miners, and the tarnished plant 

 bug. 



