Eighteenth Annual Report OF THE Agricultural Experiment Station LAFAYETTE, INDIANA For the Year Ending June 30, 1905 LAFAYETTE, IND. PRESS OF BURT-TERRY-WILSON CO. TO THE GOVERNOR: I transmit herewith the annual report of the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station for the year ending June 30, 1905. WILLIAM V. STUART, President of the Board of Trustees. December 1, 1905. TO THE PRESIDENT of the Board of TRUSTEES: I herewith present the eighteenth annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Indiana for the year ending June 30, 1905, the same being required by Section 3, of an act entitled "An act to establish Agricultural Experiment Stations in connection with the Colleges established in the several States, under provisions of an act approved July, 1862, and of the acts supplemental thereto," and being in accordance also with the instructions of the Department of Agriculture. This report consists of a report of the Director of the Station, a summary of Station investigations by members of the Staff, a list of the Station bulletins published prior to December 1, 1905, and a financial report of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees. WINTHROP E. STONE, December 1, 1905. President. ARTHUR GOSS, M. S., A. C.,* Director, Station Chemist, State Chemist WILLIAM C. LATTA, M. S., JAMES TROOP, M. S., JOSEPH C. ARTHUR, D. Sc., HUBERT E. VANNORMAN, B. S.,** JOHN H. SKINNER, B. S., ALFRED T. WIANCKO, B. S. A., ROBERT A. CRAIG, D. V. M., Consulting Agriculturist Horticulturist and Entomologist ARVILL W. BITTING, D. V. M., M. D., CHARLES O. SWANSON, M. Agr., GEORGE I. CHRISTIE, B. S. A., NELLIE TRACY, ALDINE PILLING,* JESSIE L. COWING. Agriculturist Animal Pathology Poultry Husbandry Dairy Husbandry. Associate Chemist Assistant Agriculturist Assistant in Soil Improvement Dairy Field Assistant Assistant in Crop Improvement Assistant in Animal Husbandry Assistant Chemist Clerk and Librarian Stenographer Bookkeeper and Stenographer *Connected with Fertilizer Control. **Resigned. **Employed under Special Contract. Report of the Animal Husbandry Department - Report of the Dairy Department Report of the Veterinary Department OF THE PURDUE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1905. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. TO PRESIDENT W. E. STONE Sir: I take pleasure in submitting herewith the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station. This includes a summary of the work of the different departments for the year ending June 30, 1905, a financial statement of the receipts and expenditures from the Hatch and Miscellaneous funds. during the same time and a financial statement of the State Agricultural Experiment fund for the year ending October 31, 1905. Reorganization of the Work. On July 1, 1904, two very important changes were made in the organization of the work of the Station. At that time the Station was relieved of the care and management of the Farm, the same being take over by the University. By comparing the financial report included herewith, with that of last year, it will be seen that this change has resulted in a saving to the Station of over $3,000 in the items of labor and feeding stuffs alone. It is to be noted, however, that something like $1,000 of this is offset by a decrease in the sale of farm products. Everything considered, the Station has benefited by this change to the extent of fully $2,000 per annum. Another change of even greater importance was the placing of the business of the State Chemist's office under the Station organization instead of direct University control, as had been the case in the past. As there is usually a balance of two or three thousand dollars per annum from this source, above all expenses of administering the work, the Station has benefited to this extent by this change. The annual report of the fertilizer control work, of which the work of the office consists almost exclusively, will hereafter be published as one of the regular Station bulletins. |