LETTER OF SUBMITTAL. OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS, Washington, D. C., February 2, 1904. SIR: I have the honor to present herewith the annual report of the Office of Experiment Stations, which includes a report on the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations in the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903. This is the ninth annual report on the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations in the United States, made by the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, under instructions from the Secretary of Agriculture. As heretofore, the report is based on three sources of information, viz, the annual financial statements of the stations, rendered on the schedules prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, in accordance with the act of Congress; the printed reports and bulletins of the stations; and the reports of personal examinations of the work and expenditures of the stations made during the past year by the Director, assistant director, and one other expert officer of the Office of Experiment Stations. In addition to the brief accounts of all the stations, the detailed reports of the special agents in charge of the stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, and summary statements regarding the special investigations in charge of this Office have been included, together with special articles on progress in agricultural education, farmers' institutes in the United States, instruction in agriculture in land-grant colleges and schools for colored persons, development of the text-book of agriculture in North America, agricultural economics as a subject of study in the agricultural college, experiment station work with apples, a summary of recent American work on feeding stuffs, and organization of governing boards and rules adopted by them for the regulation of agricultural experiment stations. Very respectfully, Hon. JAMES WILSON, A. C. TRUE, Secretary of Agriculture. 9 CONTENTS. Page. Work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations-Continued. The agricultural experiment stations in the several States and Territories, with governing boards, station staffs, general outlook, lines of work, Publications of the Office of Experiment Stations issued during 1903......... Station publications received by the Office of Experiment Stations during Statistics of the land-grant colleges and universities............. Table 1.-Land-grant institutions and their courses of study.. Table 6.-Additions to equipment in 1903.. Table 7.—Disbursements from the United States Treasury to the Table 9.-Revenue and additions to equipment in 1903... Table 11.-Disbursements from the United States Treasury to the States and Territories of the appropriations under the act of Congress of March 2, 1887 Federal legislation, regulations, and rulings affecting agricultural colleges |