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enterprise with the college. The excursions of farmers to the college 

 have brought some 7,000 farmers to visit the institution during the 

 past summer. 



January 4, 1901, the large general-purpose barn was burned. This 

 has been replaced by the erection of two barns at a total cost of 

 $18,000. The college with which the station is connected has been 

 given $50,000 for the erection of buildings, and has had its maintenance 

 fund materially increased by the enactment of a law giving it a tax of 

 one-fifth mill on each dollar of taxable property in the State. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



Farm products 1, 317. 04 



Miscellaneous 598. 00 



Total 16,915.04 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States f un( 

 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 44-46 and the^Annual Report for 1900. 



Bulletin 44, pp- 14, jig. 1* — Water Hemlock Poisoning. — Preserving 

 Eggs. — A case of poisoning of two cows by water hemlock is reported 

 and notes are given on the preservation of eggs with water glass. 

 The bulletin is largely reprinted from an earlier publication of the 

 station. 



Bulletin 45, pp. 14- — Feeding Trials with Work Horses. — Results 

 of feeding experiments with horses and mules in which timothy hay 

 was compared with brome grass hay and with oat straw, and oats were 

 compared with barley, malted barley, malted barley and bran, corn, 

 and with bran and shorts. 



Bulletin 46, pp. 9I{,. — A Preliminary List of the Spermaphyta, Seed- 

 hearing Plants of North Dakota. — A list with notes of the seed-bear- 

 ing plants of the State, in which 340 genera and 775 species and 

 varieties are enumerated. 



Annual Report, 1900, pp. 119. — This includes a brief report on 

 station work by the director; a financial statement for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1900; and departmental reports containing determi- 

 nations of the nitrogen content of wheat, summaries of meteorological 

 observations for 1900, notes on cooperative culture experiments with 



