Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1905 Page: 82
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82 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS.
INCOME.
The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows:
United States appropriation _______-- _---______ - $15, 000. 00
State appropriation _______- ____ ____________- 1, 500. 00
Fees _-_ ______-__-_______________ __-__- 3, 755. 00
Farm products-________ __________ _-__ -- __-- 1, 760. 52
Balance from previous year__ ---------------------- 54. 07
Total __.______________--------------- 22, 069. 59
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 publications of this station received during the past fiscal year
were Bulletins 104-115, on the following subjects: A study of reciprocal
crosses; fertilizer inspection; soy beans in Maine, feeding
experiments with cows, alfalfa; home-mixed fertilizers; brown-tail
moth and other orchard moths; apple maggot and other insects;
digestion experiments with sheep and steers; finances, meteorology,
index; potato experiments in 1904; summary of experiments in
practical horticulture, red clover from various sources; and feedingstuff
inspection.
MARYLAND.
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, College Park.
Department of Maryland Agricultural College.
H. J. PATTERSON, B. S., Director.
GENERAL OUTLOOK.
During the past fiscal year the Maryland Station has enlarged
its operations considerably by undertaking additional investigations
in cooperation with this Department. It is now cooperating with the
Bureau of Plant Industry in breeding experiments with wheat, oats,
barley, and rye, in growing forage crops, and in selecting and breeding
tobacco; with the Bureau of Entomology in spraying experiments
for scale insects; with the Bureau of Animal Industry in experiments
with milch goats, and with the Bureau of Chemistry in investigations
on the sugar content of sweet corn. Both the departments of
chemistry and agronomy are giving much attention to corn breeding
for the purpose of obtaining varieties of sweet corn which will better
fill the demands of the markets, and of increasing the yield and the
protein content of field corn. The division of chemistry, in addition
to its work with sweet corn, has recently taken up a study of the
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