208 EEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



presentation address, to which Dr. Babcock responded. Other 

 addresses were given by Senator W. H. Hatton, Assemblyman G. W. 

 Gilman, Director W. A. Henry, and ex-Governor W. D. Hoard. The 

 medal (PI. VI, figs. 1 and 2) is of golden bronze, 5 inches in diameter. 

 Upon the obverse are symbolical figures representing Agriculture 

 and Science bringing their offerings to State, who sits enthroned on a 

 raised dais. The reverse contains the preamble to the joint resolution, 

 surrounded by an oak wreath, outside of which are the encircling 

 words "The State of Wisconsin Presents to Prof essor Babcock this 

 Medal." 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



State appropriation a 15, 000. 00 



Fees '.. 125.00 



Total 30,125.00 



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 81-87; Special Bulletin, March, 1901; and the Annual 

 Report for 1900. { 



Bulletin &£, pp. 16, Jigs. ^, map 1. — Bovine Tuberculosis in Wiscon- 

 sin. — A discussion of the present status of bovine tuberculosis in Wis- 

 consin, a statistical account of the percentage of tuberculous animals 

 in other States, and brief notes on the geographical distribution of 

 tuberculosis in Wisconsin, the spread of the disease from herd to herd, 

 its introduction through tuberculous animals, the advisability of State 

 quarantine, mode of dissemination within a herd, and methods of treat- 

 ing reacting animals and controlling the disease. 



Bulletin 85, pp. Ifi, pi. 1, Hgs. 10. — Development and Distribution 

 of Nitrates and Other Soluble Salts in Cultivated Soils. — This is in 

 large part a reprint from the report of the station for 1900, with more 

 detailed data, of an account of investigations of the amount of nitric 

 nitrogen in field soils under crop conditions throughout the season, 

 but contains also accounts not previously reported of investigations on 

 the limit of nitric nitrogen in field soil at which the leaves of corn and 

 oats turn yellow, difference between the amounts of nitric nitrogen 

 under growing crops and in cultivated fallow ground at the same time, 

 distribution of nitrates and other soluble salts in soil under growing 



:i Estimated amount of State appropriation for the college of agriculture and experi- 

 ment station spent for experimental purposes. 



