FINANCIAL REPORT.

Receipts.

To amount appropriated by the United States Government for the year ended June 30, 1893___.

Expenditures.

$15,000 00

I hereby certify that the foregoing financial report of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station is correct.

GEORGE H. TAYLOR, Secretary of the Board of Control.

We, the undersigned duly appointed auditors of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, do hereby certify that we have examined the books and accounts of the aforesaid Station for the year ended June 30, 1893, and find them correct, well kept and

properly classified, and vouchers on file for all amounts expended as per financial report of the Secretary.

SEAL

R. C. MOORE,

ROBERT LEWERS, Auditors.

I, the undersigned Director of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, do hereby certify that the foregoing are the signatures of R. C. Moore and Robert Lewers, the duly appointed auditors of the aforesaid Station, to a true statement from the books of account of the said Station, and that the above is the seal of the Experiment Station of Nevada. S. A. JONES, Director.

Amount received from the United States Government for the support of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station for the first, second and third quarters of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893

Expenditures.

Amount paid out upon Board of Control warrants,

1041 to 1266, inclusive__

$11,250 00

$11,250 00

I hereby certify that the above is a full and correct report for the first, second and third quarters of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893. T. R. HOFER, Treasurer.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is the signature of T. R. Hofer, the Treasurer of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station for the period named. S. A. JONES, Director.

Amount received from the United States Government for the last quarter of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893.-.

Expenditures.

Amount paid out upon Board of Control warrants,

1267 to 1346, inclusive.

$3,750 00

3,750 00

I hereby certify that the above is a full and correct report for the last quarter of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893.

BANK OF NEVADA, Treasurer.
By R. S. OSBURN, Cashier.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is the signature of R. S. Osburn, Cashier of the Bank of Nevada, Treasurer of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station. S. A. JONES, Director.

Department of Agriculture and Horticulture.

To the Director:

SIR-The results of field experiments for 1893 are presented in the following report. Notes have been taken on wheat and oats without irrigation, wheat with the number of irrigations varied, thick and thin seeding of wheat-varying the number of pounds of seed fifteen pounds per plat on seven plats, starting with thirty pounds per acre-thick and thin seeding of corn, corn planted at different dates, lettuce, cabbage and tomatoes. Notes on these topics will appear in bulletin form.

LAND PLASTER. (Gypsum.) Alfalfa.

One-fourth of an acre was sown with fifteen pounds of land plaster on a portion of the field that would yield under ordinary circumstances the least hay, with the following result:

Area, one-fourth acres; with plaster, 1,075 pounds; without plaster, 930 pounds; rate per acre, sixty pounds.

Nothing conclusive can be said of this or any other single trial. And at best only approximate statements can be made of three or five year trials.

Potatoes.

Table No. 1, gives notes on four varieties of potatoes planted at intervals of ten days from April 1, to June 30. The seed used was pieces cut to two eyes and whole potatoes. It is possible that undue emphasis was given to the planting of April 1, from its location as row No. 1, next to the walk. In testing different depths of planting, from two to ten inches, the best results were obtained from potatoes planted from five to seven inches deep.

Of twenty-five hills planted, using the stem end for seed, twenty hills germinated, yielding 34 pounds 5 ounces of large and 4 pounds of small potatoes. Total, 38 pounds 5 ounces.

Of twenty-five hills planted, using the seed end for seed, twentyfive hills germinated yielding 36 pounds 5 ounces of large and 9 pounds 8 ounces of small potatoes. Total, 45 pounds, 13 ounces. The average weight of seed for planting noted in Table No. 1, was as follows: