172 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



Farm products, including balance from previous year 3, 044. 02 



Total 18, 044. 02 



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 63-65 and the Annual Reports for 1896, 1898, 1899, and 

 1900. 



Bulletin 63, pp. 10. — A Preliminary Bulletin on the Prevention of 

 Smut on Oats. — A preliminary report of a series of experiments on 

 the prevention of smut in which seed oats were treated with solutions 

 of copper sulphate and zinc sulphate, hot water, formalin, and sterilized 

 dry hot air. 



Bulletin 6 4, pp. H, pi. i, figs. 3. — Investigation of Diseases in 

 Poultry. — An account of observations and investigations on the nature 

 and treatment of avian tuberculosis, catarrhal roup, favus. scabies, 

 pneumonia, congestion of the lungs, and indigestion. 



Bulletin 65, pp. 36, pis. 3.?— Creameries and Cheese Factories of 

 Western Oregon. — Information on the organization and operation of 

 some TO creameries and cheese factories in western Oregon, inspected 

 by the author of the bulletin, with miscellaneous notes on the Babcock 

 test, feeding and production of cows in the State, packing and 

 marketing butter, etc. 



Annual Report, 1896, pp. 30. — Notes on the work and needs of the 

 station and a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896. 



Annual Report, 1898, pp. 68. — This contains a brief review of sta- 

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

 ended June 30, 1898 ; a report of the agriculturist, reviewing the work 

 of the year and summarizing the results of experiments reported in 

 previous publications of the station ; a report of the chemist, contain- 

 ing miscellaneous analyses ; a report of the entomologist, giving notes 

 on various insects studied during the year ; a report of the botanist, 

 giving brief notes on Oregon weeds, plant diseases, native clovers, 

 parasitic fungi, etc. , and a report of the horticulturist, outlining the 

 experiments undertaken during the year. 



Annual Report, 1899, pp. 36. — A report of the director, a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1899, and reports of the 

 heads of departments reviewing the different lines of station work, 



