168 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Oklahoma Station during" the past year included the 

 continuation of investigations begun in previous years and the begin- 

 ning of some new lines of work. Digestion experiments with Kafir 

 corn and its products were continued, as were also determinations of 

 the yield of digestible nutrients by a number of fodder crops; feeding 

 experiments with steers and pigs; studies of methods of wintering 

 and summering yearling steers; cultural and variety experiments with 

 wheat; experiments in pasturing wheat; experiments in continuous 

 cropping of wheat and Kafir corn; three-} 7 ear and five-year rotation 

 experiments with and without manuring; fertilizer and culture experi- 

 ments with alfalfa; studies of the flora of the Territories; studies of 

 the crown knot of the apple, and of a destructive root rot of fruit 

 trees; forestry experiments in cooperation with the Bureau of Forestry 

 of this Department; horticultural investigations, especially with orchard 

 and small fruits, and variety and cultural experiments with potatoes. 

 Experiments with chickens under average farm conditions were con- 

 tinued and similar experiments with ducks begun, and to the investi- 

 gations on blackleg, Texas fever, and animal parasites have been added 

 investigations on hog cholera, swine plague, and contagious abortion. 

 Experiments have been begun in the improvement of castor beans by 

 selection and in the improvement of native grass pastures by intro- 

 ducing new grasses. The legislature at its last session appropriated 

 $54,000 for college and station buildings. These will include a new 

 barn -for the joint use of college and station, and a college building 

 which will furnish better quarters for the station departments of bot- 

 any and entomology. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriate:;,. $15, 000. 00 



Farm products, including balance from previous year 2, 924. 84 



Total 17,924.84 



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 46-50 and the Annual Report for 1900. 



Bulletin Jf.6^pp. 8. — Digestion Trials. — Results of experiments with 

 chickens to test the digestibility of corn, Kafir corn, and cowpeas; and 

 of experiments with sheep to test the digestibility of corn, Kafir corn, 

 sorghum, black-rice corn, and millo maize. 



