NUTRITION INVESTIGATIONS.

W. O. ATWATER, Ph. D., Chief of nutrition investigations, Middletown, Conn.
C. D. WOODS, B. S., Special agent at Orono, Me.

F. G. BENEDICT, Ph. D., Physiological chemist.
R. D. MILNER, Ph. B., Assistant.

IRRIGATION INVESTIGATIONS.

ELWOOD MEAD, M. S., C. E., Chief of irrigation investigations.

C. E. TAIT, B. S., Assistant in charge of central district.

SAMUEL FORTIER, M. E., Agent and expert in charge of western district.

J. S. BAKER, Agent and expert in charge of northern district.

R. P. TEELE, M. A., Editorial assistant.

C. G. ELLIOTT, C. E., Agent and expert in charge of drainage investigations.
M. A. ALDRICH, Agent and expert in charge of rice investigations in Louisiana and
Texas.

A. J. TURNER, Agent and expert in charge of pumping investigations.
A. P. STOVER, B. S., Assistant in field investigations in California.
FRANK ADAMS, B. A., Assistant, investigations in Platte River Valley.
W. B. DUNTON, Agent and expert, investigations in Platte River Valley.
F. R. MORGAN, Agent and expert in field investigations in Utah.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I transmit herewith the annual report of the Office of Experiment Stations, prepared under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, 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, in accordance with the act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the said fiscal year.

The attention of the Congress is called to the request of the Secretary of Agriculture that 5,000 copies of the report be printed for the use of the Department of Agriculture, and that provision be made to print such a report annually.

WHITE HOUSE, February 5, 1904.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
Washington, D. C., February 4, 1904.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith the annual report of the Office of Experiment Stations, prepared in accordance with my instructions. This includes a report on the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations established under the act of Congress of March 2, 1887, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, in compliance with the following provision of the act making appropriations for this Department for the said fiscal year:

The Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required by section three of the said act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, shall ascertain whether the expenditures under the appropriation hereby made are in accordance with the provisions of the said act, and shall make report thereon to Congress.

Reports are also included on the experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, which are provided for in the appropriation act aforesaid and are directly managed by this Department.

If this report is published by Congress, it is desirable that 5,000 copies should be provided for the use of this Department, and that provision be made to print such a report annually.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,
JAMES WILSON,

The PRESIDENT.

Secretary.

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