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A report of the receipts and expenditures of 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 52-54 and the Annual Report for 1899. 



Bulletin 52, pp. 8. — Rye Meal and Quaker-oats Feed for Milk Prod >/ c- 

 tion. — Report of an experiment covering 3 periods of 35 days each 

 conducted with 9 cows to compare Quaker-oat feed and rye meal as 

 feeding stuffs for milch cows. 



Bulletin 53, pp. 8. — Methods of Steer Feeding. — Report of a coop- 

 erative experiment made by the station and the Pennsylvania depart- 

 ment of agriculture to determine the comparative merits of feeding 

 steers in pens and stalls. 



Bulletin 5^, pp. 7. — The Manorial Value of the Excreta of Milch 

 Cows. — A record of the amount and composition of food eaten and of 

 feces and urine excreted and milk produced by 2 cows during 50 days. 



Annual Report, 1899, pp. 3^3, pis. 8, dgms. $3. — This includes the 

 organization list of the station; a financial statement for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1899; a report of the director summarizing briefly the 

 work of the station during the year; data on the cost of growing and 

 the yield of dry and digestible matter per acre of corn, sugar beets, 

 and mangels, and the results of a feeding experiment with 9 cows to 

 determine their comparative value as dairy foods; details and results 

 of 2 tests with 1-1 calves to determine the value of whole milk for the 

 production of veal; a report of experiments begun in the fall of 1896 

 in cooperation with the Division of Forestry of this Department to 

 study the effect of climate upon several widely distributed species of 

 forest-tree seedlings; observations on the time and rate of formation 

 of the annual ring of wood in the European larch and the white pine; 

 notes on the depreciation of forest trees and results of the failure to 

 cut trees at maturity; miscellaneous notes on diseases of oaks, the pine 

 weevil, and shade trees for street planting; meteorological observa- 

 tions; lists of exchanges and available station publications; and reprints 

 or more detailed accounts, including full experimental data of work 

 reported in Bulletins 44-52 of the station. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Pennsylvania Station has persistently followed a few main lines 

 of investigation. One series of experiments in particular, namely, 

 four-course rotations, has been conducted upon a uniform plan for the 

 past nineteen years. These experiments involve the use of 144 plats 

 of one-eighth acre each, and are probably the most extensive and long- 

 continued experiments of the sort in the United States. Dairy hus- 



