study, and the improvement of insecticides and the study of their effects upon fruits and vines. During the past three years the work has been limited to investigations on the use of insecticides and on the life history of the strawberry-root aphis. Numerous experiments have been made with various insecticides for the destruction of the San José scale, kerosene receiving the most attention. As the station has control of very little land, much of its field work is carried on in the form of cooperative experiments. A number of interested land owners donate the use of land and carry out the work according to prescribed lines. Such work is always under the immediate personal supervision of one of the chiefs of divisions. That officer inspects the work, receives and records the reports, and prepares the material for publication. During a considerable part of the station's history it has followed the practice of cooperating with veterinarians throughout the State instead of employing a veterinarian as a member of the station staff. This was done to avoid undesirable results of any possible misunderstanding by citizens of the State engaged in agricultural pursuits as to the proper function of such an official. This policy was adopted in 1890 and followed until 1899. Facilities were offered to the veterinarians cooperating in the way of libraries, laboratories, and the services of station officers. In return the veterinarian furnished reliable information concerning prevalent diseases, and oftentimes gave timely warning of outbreaks of contagion among farm animals. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION. The station has issued 45 regular bulletins, 2 special bulletins, and 11 annual reports. The annual reports contain a full and detailed account of the work of the station for the year. They are not printed in editions in excess of 1,000 copies. The station has recently begun issuing regular newspaper bulletins. The mailing list contains 6,700 names, and the correspondence amounts to about 2,700 letters a year. Nearly all of the members of the staff are identified with the Grange, or Patrons of Husbandry, and all of them are called upon frequently for addresses before such meetings or at farmers' institutes. GENERAL RESULTS OF WORK. The Delaware Station has done much to benefit the agriculture of the State by assisting in the introduction of crimson clover for forage and green manuring. The work of the station on this plant has also been an important factor in determining the range of its usefulness in other parts of the country. Its studies of anthrax and the means for its repression have been of general importance as well as of direct practical benefit to Delaware farmers. Much useful work has also been done for the promotion of the dairying and horticultural interests of the State. FLORIDA. Agricultural Experiment Station of Florida, Lake City. Department of Florida State Agricultural College. GOVERNING BOARD. J. R. Parrott (President), St. Augustine; J. D. Callaway, Lake City; L. Harrison, Lake City; F. E. Harris (Secretary), Ocala; Geo. W. Wilson (Vice-President), Jacksonville; E. D. Biggs, Pensacola; C. A. Carson, Kissimmee. STATION STAFF. W. F. Yocum, M. A., President of the College and Director. Horace E. Stockbridge, Ph. D., Agricul turist. H. K. Miller, M. S., Chemist. H. A. Gossard, M. S., Entomologist. Howard H. Hume, M. S., Horticulturist and Biologist. A. W. Blair, M. A., Assistant Chemist. HISTORY. The Florida Station is located in the northeastern part of the State. The land of the State in general rises gradually from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico to a central ridge, which attains an elevation of about 300 feet. There are numerous inlets of the sea, small lakes, and swamps. Forests, especially of pines, are extensive. The soils are sandy and generally underlaid with limestone, and are as a rule productive. "Though Florida extends over 6 degrees of latitude, its climate is very uniform." The mean annual temperature is about 70° F. The annual rainfall ranges between 40 and 75 inches in different localities. Truck farming and orange growing have in recent years been the principal agricultural industries. cane are grown in considerable amounts. grown in the southern part of the State. ticed in the State by white men to some extent for more than two hun dred years, but its chief development has taken place within the past quarter of a century. Cotton, tobacco, and sugar Pineapples are successfully Agriculture has been prac The college with which the station is connected was established in 1884, and is being developed along industrial and scientific lines. The Agricultural Experiment Station of Florida was organized in March, 1888, in accordance with the act of Congress, as a department of the Florida State Agricultural College, with Prof. J. Kost, LL. D., as director. At the organization of the station substations were organized at Defuniak Springs, Fort Myers, and Ocala. These substations were discontinued in 1897. In January, 1889, Rev. James P. De Pass became director of the station, serving until June, 1893, when he was |