and hulls, and molasses has been completed. The veterinarian is studying means of rendering cattle immune to Texas fever and of freeing cattle and pastures of ticks. An isolated pasture and quarantine sheds and lots have recently been added to the equipment for such work. The station is giving some attention to means of checking the ravages of the Mexican cotton boll weevil, and is cooperating with the Division of Entomology of this Department in this work, as well as in studies on the San José scale and the Asiatic lady bird. It is also cooperating with the Bureau of Plant Industry in efforts to improve the wheat industry in the Middle West, with the Bureau of Chemistry in studies. on the available plant food in soils and on the influence of environment on the sugar content of muskmelons. The work at the Beeville and Troupe substations is being prosecuted with success, although handicapped somewhat at the latter place by the resignation of the superintendent in charge. The winter-growing of vegetables, especially cabbage and cauliflower, has proven a success. A sewage irrigation garden has been established for growing fall vegetables, especially potatoes, the fall crop of which keep better than the early crop. Experiments with tomatoes and in methods of planting grapes are also in progress, as well as experiments on peaches in cooperation with farmers in Smith County. The substations in Texas have proven very popular, and continual demands are being made for additional institutions of this nature. However, the substation committee of the Farmers' Congress wisely concludes that it is better "to have one new station established with funds sufficient to equip and operate it successfully than to try six weak experiments that would probably reflect no credit on the experiment station movement in the final summing up of results." The new building for the departments of chemistry and veterinary science has been completed and occupied, and furnishes good facilities for these departments. Work has been started on an $8,000 dairy barn for the use of the college and the station. At the close of the year the director of the station and dean of the department of agriculture of the college resigned to accept the presidency of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and directorship of the station. He has been succeeded by John A. Craig, formerly of the Iowa State College of Agriculture, but for several years engaged in editorial work. The agriculturist resigned to go to Louisiana and has been succeeded by F. S. Johnston, formerly of the Indiana School of Agriculture and station. F. R. Marshall, recently of the Iowa College and station, has been elected associate professor of animal husbandry. J. K. Robertson has been made superintendent of the Beeville Station, vice S. A. Henry; and W. S. Hotchkiss, of Illinois, superintendent of the Troupe Station, which for some months past has been under the direction of E. C. Green, of the horticultural department. The chemist has been given a year's leave of absence for travel and study in Europe. R. L. Bennett, recently director of the Arkansas Station, has been elected superintendent of farmers' institutes. The Texas Station has undertaken and carried through considerable work of great value to the farmers of the State, and the latter are very appreciative of the fact. They have come to the support of the station in securing a special appropriation for better equipment, and for the establishment of substations to investigate special problems in different localities. The opportunities for investigations of great scientific and practical value are almost unlimited in Texas, and what the station especially needs at the present time is a definite policy with reference to plans for station work, with a clear differentiation between college and station work, and then more settled conditions with regard to the staff of investigators. LINES OF WORK. The principal lines of work conducted at the Texas Station during the past year were as follows: Chemistry; meteorology; soils; field experiments forage crops, variety tests, fertilizer experiments with corn and cotton; horticulture-variety and fertilizer experiments with tomatoes, and experiments with berries and figs; feeding experiments; diseases of animals; and irrigation. INCOME. The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows: United States appropriation State appropriation. Miscellaneous....... $15,000. 00 5,000.00 Total... 28, 737.01 A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States fund has been rendered in accordance with the schedule prescribed by this Department, and has been approved. PUBLICATIONS. The publications of this station received during the past fiscal year were Bulletins 65 and 66 on the tomato and forage crops. UTAH. Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan. Department of the Agricultural College of Utah. GOVERNING BOARD. Board of Trustees: W. S. McCornick (President), Salt Lake City; P. W. Maughan (Secretary), Logan; Allan M. Fleming (Treasurer), Logan; Mrs. Emily S. Richards, Salt Lake City; John A. McAlister, Logan; L. Hansen, Logan; Mrs. R. N. Bagley, Ogden; George C. Whitmore, Nephi; E. R. Owen, Wellsville. Irrigation continues to be the foundation upon which most of the investigations of the Utah Station are based. The lines of work in progress last year have been continued and new work in some phases of irrigation and in animal husbandry has been added. Feeding experiments with horses, cattle, and sheep have been conducted to study especially the value of sugar factory by-products and the possibilities of the irrigated pasture. The irrigation investigations have been extended to include the study of orchard and garden crops and the effect of irrigation on the soluble elements of the soil. In the laboratory the effect of irrigation water on the nitrogen content of crops is being studied. The protein content of wheat was found to increase and the starch and fat to decrease as the irrigation water was decreased. An attempt is being made to fix these characteristics. During the past three years experiments in dry farming on the station farm have been conducted, and results of such general interest obtained that the last legislature appropriated $12,500 for extending the work. Six farms of 40 acres each have been selected and are donated for the purpose by the counties in which they are located. Trials will be made with cereals and other field crops. In this connection an effort is being made to change macaroni wheat from a spring to a fall or winter variety by means of selection. Some plants were secured that lived through the winter, and it is thought that a winter variety can be secured. Ten varieties of macaroni wheat have given an average yield of 33 bushels an acre without water on the station farm, and this is, therefore, a very valuable dry-farming crop. Under a system of dry farming, however, it is necessary that the wheat be sown in the fall. The station is cooperating with this Department as follows: With the Bureau of Soils in the reclamation of a forty-acre tract of alkali land; with the Bureau of Plant Industry in the cultivation of hemp, in the amount of water required by different forage plants, and in the production of sugar-beet seed; with the Bureau of Chemistry on the effect of environment on the composition of sugar beets and on the available plant food in soils. Farmers' institutes have been continued under the auspices of the college, the members of the station staff partici pating in the work. Interest in agricultural education is increasing and the grade of instruction in the college being raised. About onethird of the students are now taking agricultural courses. The appointment of an entomologist for the station has made it possible to investigate methods of combating the codling moth, which is the most serious orchard pest in the State. During the year the irrigation engineer and his assistant resigned, and the former was succeeded by W. W. McLaughlin, formerly assistant chemist of the station. R. W. Clark, formerly of Alabama, has been appointed animal husbandman, and William Jardine, assistant agronomist. The last legislature, in addition to making an appropriation for experiments in dry farming, provided $6,500 for building purposes, $2,000 for publications, and appropriations covering the light, water, and fuel bills of the station. The work of the station is attracting a great deal of attention throughout the State and is meeting the approval of the people. The increased funds which the station is receiving from the State is an indication of this. The station work is better systema-, tized than it has ever been before and all of its funds are carefully husbanded, and yet these funds are not sufficient to carry on the investigations already inaugurated, all of which are of primary importance to the agriculture of the State and should be continued. The station should also have additional funds to further develop its work in irrigation, animal husbandry, and horticulture. LINES OF WORK. The principal lines of work conducted at the Utah Station during the past year were as follows: Chemistry-soils, feeding stuffs; alkali soil investigations-reclamation of alkali soils; meteorology; field experiments-rotations, testing varieties of cereals, sugar beets and garden vegetables, arid farming; horticulture; diseases of plants; cattle and sheep breeding; feeding experiments-cattle, sheep, horses; dairying; poultry experiments; irrigation-seepage investigations, water requirements of plants and soils. INCOME. The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows: United States appropriation... Farm crops Total. $15,000.00 18, 634. 64 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 only publication of this station received during the past fiscal year was Bulletin 77 on horse feeding. VERMONT. Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington. Department of University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. GOVERNING BOARD. Board of Trustees Board of Control: Matthew Henry Buckham (President), Burlington; E. J. Ormsbee, Brandon; G. S. Fassett, Enosburg; Cassius Peck, Burlington. J. L. Hills, D. S., Director. STATION STAFF. G. H. Perkins, PH. D., Entomologist. L. R. Jones, PH. B., Botanist. C. H. Jones, B. S., Chemist. F. M. Hollister, B. S., Assistant Chemist. E. S. Gregg, Dairyman. Mary A. Benson, Stenographer. GENERAL OUTLOOK. The lines of work at the Vermont Station were not materially altered during the past year, excepting in the horticultural department, where a change in horticulturist resulted in a lessening of pomological studies and increased attention to greenhouse studies and vegetable growing. The results of investigations with maple sap, covering five years, are being prepared for publication. A study of the enzyms of the soft rots has been undertaken by the botanist in cooperation with the New York State Station. The Vermont Station is also cooperating with the Bureau of Chemistry of this Department in studying the available plant food in soils; with the Bureau of Plant Industry in testing medicinal plants, and in experiments to determine the amount and quality of grass and forage-plant seeds offered for sale in Vermont; with the Bureau of Forestry in tree planting experiments; and with this Office in nutrition investigations. The last season, owing to the failure of crops due to peculiar climatic conditions, was a very discouraging one for the Vermont Station. Poultry work, in connection with the college, has been decided upon, and a poultry house to cost about $1,000 is now being erected. Some experimental work in this connection is also planned. This station is doing considerable useful work and in some lines has achieved marked success. It deserves more liberal treatment on the part of the State, and greatly needs additional funds for the extension of its work. Recent changes in the State law regarding the inspection of feeding stuffs have lessened the resources of the station. LINES OF 'WORK. The principal lines of work conducted at the Vermont Station during the past year were as follows: Chemistry-composition of potatoes, artichokes, etc., methods of analysis; analysis and control of fertilizers |