Deducting the cost of fertilizers applied ($20.10 per acre) gives a net income of $62.40 per acre. The unfertilized plat yielded 3 1-3 bushels per acre, or less than the amount of seed planted. For the second crop, salable tubers of the first crop were spread in the sun for a week after digging, but were covered with burlap the hottest part of the day. They were very slightly wilted when cut into four pieces, lengthwise, sprinkled with slacked lime, and planted without additional fertilizer in the same rows as the first crop, June 23. The ground was very dry when the second crop was planted, and the seed was covered 5 inches deep. Extra cultivation was given, but the drought caused slow and irregular sprouting, and the crop was very poor. The potatoes were dug October 10, the best yield being 49 bushels per acre. It should be remembered that the first crop was dug long before the tubers were mature, so that the second crop, of ripened tubers, was comparatively smaller than the figures indicate. The second crop sold for 60 cents per bushel, wholesale. The most profitable plat was that noted for the first crop, its entire crop selling for $107.25 per acre. The dry season demonstrated the inefficiency of tobacco dust as a remedy for woolly aphis. For the past three years the apple trees in the experiment orchard have been treated to a heavy coating of tobacco dust on their main roots. The soil was removed for a distance of two to three fect from the base of the trunk, exposing the principal roots. Over these an inch of tobacco dust was spread, requiring from three to five pounds per tree. The soil was then replaced. Practically no injury has been found from woolly aphis during years of average rainfall. But the past season was unusually dry, the rainfall for the year being 12 inches below normal. Under these conditions tobacco has proved ineffective and our trees have become infested with this serious pest. The Station has heretofore reported favorably on this remedy for woolly aphis. It is still believed to be helpful, but it is not a specific. The experiment orchard is in fine condition, and all varieties of fruit give promise at this date (December) of a good crop. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES A. KEFFER, Horticulturist REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN The duties of the librarian have continued to be somewhat varied, in cluding, besides the care of the library, general office work and photography. There have been added to the library during the year, 175 bound volumes, making the total number now on the shelves 2,675. The accessions have been from the following sources: 46 volumes of periodicals obtained by subscription and exchange, and 26 volumes of Comptes Rendus purchased in bulk, were bound by the Station; 61 volumes were received from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, state experiment stations, and various sceintific institutions; II were purchased; and 31 were donated. These last came from Dr. Dabney and from the estate of Col. Perez Dickinson. There are 26 additional volumes of Comptes Rendus to be bound, besides the current volumes of periodicals subscribed for. Several hundred pamphlets from institutions in this country and abroad have been received and placed on file. Fifteen journals, chiefly technical, are subscribed for, and a large and increasing number of agricultural papers are sent to the Station in exchange for bulletins. These papers are accessible to all persons interested in them, and are of special value to students of agriculture in the University. About 250 pictures were taken during the year for use in illustrating our own publications and articles relative to the work of the Station that appear from time to time in agricultural papers. Considerable time was spent during the early part of the year in the preparation of photographs for the St. Louis Exposition. About 185 bromide enlargements were made for the Experiment Station exhibit and 99 5x7 prints for the exhibit of the University. The revision of the mailing list has been completed. Last year cards were mailed with bulletins, containing blanks for name, postoffice, rural route, and county, to be filled out and returned by persons wishing to receive future publications. A second card has since been sent out for the benefit of those who may have overlooked the first, and the new list has been made up from all the cards returned. It is to be regretted that more than 4,000 persons to whom cards were sent, failed to return them, so that their names have had to be dropped from the list. Bulletins are now distributed as follows: MAILING LIST U. S. Dept. of Agr., Agr'l Colleges and Experiment Stations.. Exchanges .. Farmers, Gardeners, and Fruit Growers in Tennessee Individuals in Other States.... .1.195 197 186 .4.743 377 44 .6.742 Foreign, Other than Exchanges. Total Respectfully submitted, FREDERICK H. BROOME, Librarian. BULLETINS ISSUED BY THE EXPERIMENT STATION, 1888-1904 1888. Vol. I, No. 2. No. 3. Star (*) indicates that bulletin is available. No. 1. Dehorning Cattle. History and Reorganization. 1889. Vol. II, No. 1. Notes on Fertilizers and Fertilizing Materials.* No. 2. No. 3. Diseases of the Irish Potato. Cotton-seed Hulls and Meal as Food for Live Stock. Germination Grasses of Mountain Meadows and Deer Parks. Chemical Composition and Tests of Varieties of Strawberries.* 1890. Vol. III, No. 1. Experiments in Growing Potatoes. Field Experiments with Barley, Corn, Oats, Wheat, Sorghum, and Points about Country Roads. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. Fruit Trees at the Experiment Station. Practical Experiments in Reclaiming "Galled" or Washed Lands, with Notes on Mulch and Mulch Materials. 1891. Vol. IV, No. 1. Crab-grass Hay. Sorghum as a Forage Plant. Test of Feed Value of First and Seccnd Crops of Clover. Pasture Grasses. Black Knot of the Plum and Cherry. Pruning Fruit Trees. Glassy-winged Soldier Bug. Diseases of Live Stock. Experiment Station Record. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. 1892. Vol. V. No. 2. No. 3. The The Peanut Crop of Tennessee: Statistics, Culture, and Chemistry. Some Fungous Diseases of the Grape.* A Chemical Study of the Cotton Plant.* No. 1. Fruit Trees and Experiments with Vegetables.* A Contribution to the Study of Economies of Milk Production. 1893. Vol. VI, No. 1. Some Injurious Insects of the Apple. No. 2. The Rational Use of Feeding Stuffs. Winter Dairying in Tennessee. No. 3. Small Fruits: Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Grapes. No. 4. Field Experiments with Tomatoes and Onions. 1894. Vol. VII, No. 1. Grasses of Tennessee.-Part II. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. Fruits: Grapes, Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Pears, Cooperative Experimentation. 1895. Vol. VIII. No. 1. Spraying Apparatus. Notes to Correspondents. Insecticides. Fungicides. Spray Some Experiments with Fungicides on Peach Foliage, No. 3. A Contribution to the Study of Southern Feeding Stuffs. Varieties of Grapes. 1897. Vol. X, No. 1. Apples of Tennessee Origin (Second Report). No. 2. Pot Culture of Lettuce.* No. 3. The Soils of Tennessee.* No. 4. Scale Insects: San Jose and Other Species.* 1898. Vol. X1, No. 1. Persimmons. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. Grasses and Forage Plants: I. Domesticated Grasses.* Grasses and Forage Plants: III. Meadows and Wild Pastures.* No. 2. No. 3. Climate of Tennessee. Experiments with Winter Wheat. Fertilizer Experiments on Potatoes, Corn, Cowpeas, Peanuts.* 1901. Vol. XIV, No. 1. Experiments with Corn, Forage Crops and Spring Cereals. No. 4. The Early Growth and Training of Apple Trees. 1902. Vol. XV, No. 1. The Value of Corn, Skim Milk and Whey for Fattening Swine.* No. 4. The Relative Values of Protein in Cotton-seed Meal, Cowpea Hay and Wheat Bran.* 1903. Vol. XVI, No. 1. Fertilizer Experiments.* No. 2. San Jose Scale.* No. 3. No 4. Corn, Wheat and Soy Bean Meal with Skim Milk for Pork Pro- Influence of Climate and Soil on the Composition and Milling 1904. Vol. XVII. No. 1. Crops for the Silo.* No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. Increasing the Yield of Corn. Training and Pruning Fruit Trees and Vines.* Replacing Grain with Alfalfa in a Ration for Dairy Cows.* Special Bulletins 1889. A. The Army Worm: How to Prevent Its Ravages on Cotton. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. B. No. 5. No. 6. No. 7 No. 8. The East Tennessee Farmers' Convention and Farmers' Institute. The Saving of Soil Moisture. Farmers' Institute to be Held at Boons Creek, Washington No. 9. Liming Soils. Farmers Institute to be Held at Rogersville, Hawkins County, TREASURER'S REPORT JULY 1, 1903, TO JUNE 30, 1904 The Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Tennessee IN ACCOUNT WITH THE UNITED STATES This is to certify, that, as the authorized Auditing Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee, we have examined the accounts of the Treasurer of the Agricultural Experiment Station for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, and find them correct; that the above is a true balance sheet corresponding with said accounts; that the said accounts show no more than $713.42 was expended for building and repairs, and that there is $18.34 cash balance. C. DEADERICK, Auditing Committee. We hereby certify that C. Deaderick and Wm. Rule are the authorized Auditing Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Ten nessee. BROWN AYRES, President. STATE OF TENNESSEE, COUNTY OF KNOX: Before me, Thos. D. Morris, a Notary Public in and for said State and County, personally appeared the foregoing signers, personally known to me to be trustees and officers of the University of Tennessee, who made oath, in due form of law, that the above statements are true to the best of their knowledge, information and belief. Witness my hand and official seal at office in Knoxville, Tennessee, this 9th day of December, 1904. THOS. D. MORRIS, |