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ments with oats; experiments with cultivated and nativ r e forage plants; 

 horticultural investigations with native and other fruits and garden 

 vegetables; feeding experiments with pigs and lambs. The station is 

 cooperating with this Office in irrigation investigations and with the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department in plant breeding and 

 quite extensive investigations of grasses and forage plants for alkali 

 soils. 



The experiments in feeding pigs included the use of alfalfa for 

 growing pigs and of artichokes for fattening them; but it was found 

 that too large a percentage of costly grain was needed for economical 

 pork production. During the winter an experiment in feeding lambs 

 was carried to successful conclusion. In another experiment the feed- 

 ing qualities of capons and cockerels were compared. Early in the 

 year a number of greenhouse experiments were started, but these 

 were entirely destroyed by a fire which burned part of the greenhouse. 

 However, the building has been repaired and a new potting house has 

 been erected. The new $35,000 Science Hall (PL VII, fig. 2), which 

 is just being completed, will furnish much better facilities for a num- 

 ber of departments of station work, especially those of chemistry and 

 geology. The station does not carry on any institute work, but the 

 agriculturist and botanist have delivered addresses at conventions of 

 stockmen. The publication of press bulletins has been started. 



INCOME. 



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



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



Farm products 528.20 



Total 15,528.20 



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 Bulletin 45 and the Annual Report for 1900. 



Bulletin Ifi, pp. lift, pis. 26, map 1. — A Preliminary Report on the 

 Artesian Basins of Wyoming. — This is a preliminary treatise on the 

 geology and artesian basins of Wyoming, based upon field notes col- 

 lected during the past four years, accompanied by a map embodying 

 "all that is known of the geology of Wyoming up to date," the object 

 of the publication being to explain the essential features of the artesian 

 basins of the State, so that artesian wells may be located. 



Annual Report, 1900, pp. 4,57, pis. 39, figs. 12, dgm. 1, map 1.— This 

 includes notes on the origin and purpose of the station; brief abstracts 



