6841135 A m.» AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS BULLETIN NO. 1 34 NOVEMBER, 1 910 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 0N THE itablishment of the New State Stations _; POSTOFFICE § COLLEGE STATION, BRAZOS COUNTY, TEXAS Austin Printing Company. TEXAS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. OFFICERS. Governing Board. (Board of Directors A. & M. College.) K. K. LEGGETT, President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ab T. D. RoWELL, Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Jefl A. HAIDUSEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LaG 1 JAMEs CRAVENs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ho_ WALToN PETEET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Fort “i, E. R. KONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..A‘ A. R. McCoLLUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " W. P. SEBASTIAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Brecken_ __ President of College. R. T. Mame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..College sm Station Ofiicers. H. H. HARRINcToN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Dirp J. W. CARSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Assistant to Director and State Feed Ins‘ M. FRANcIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Veterina_ G. S. FRAPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Chev J. C. BURNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Animal Husbai H. NEss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Horticult. RAYMoNn H. Pom) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Plant Pathol WILMON NEWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Entomol H. L. MCKNIGIIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Agricult g N. C. HAMNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Assistant Che p E. C. CARLYLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Assistant Che J. B. RATHER . . . . . .' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Assistant Che C. W. CRIsLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Chief C1. MISS CARRIE FUQYA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stenograpp A. S. WARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Stenogra STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 1 Governing Board. Hrs ExcELLENcY GOVERNOR T. M. CAMPBELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Au_ LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR A. B. DAVIDSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cu CoMMIssIoNER OF AGRICULTURE HoN. E. R. KONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Au; Director of Stations. H. H. HARRINsTox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..College Stat a Superintendents of Stations. A. T. PoTTs. Beeville Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Beeville, Bee Cou J. L. WELoH, Troupe Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Troupe, Smith Cou W. S. HoTcHKIss, Lubbock Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Lubbock, Lubbock Conn; J. T. CRUsE, Fort Worth Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fort Worth, Tarrant Cou R. L. YOUNG, Pecos Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Pecos, Reeves Counp J. W. BUELL, Denton Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Denton, Denton Cou 1 —-—-———, Temple Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Temp1e, Bell Cou of I. S. YORK, Spur Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Spur, Dickens Coun. ii, Angleton Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Angleton, Brazoria Coun, J. K. FITZGERALD, Beaumont Station . . . . . . . . . . . ..Beaumont, Jefferson Cou NoTE.—The main station is located on the grounds of the Agricultu ’ and Mechanical College, in Brazos County. The postoffice address is Coll Station, Texas. Reports and bulletins are sent free upon application to ‘ Director. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, November 18, 1910. Hon. A. B. Davidson, Lieutenant-Governor, Chairman Board 0f Con- trol 0f State Experiment Stations, Aztst/tat, Texas. DEAR SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith my biennial report for the State Experiment Stations during the past year: The Thirty-first Legislature appropriated $25,000.00 annually for the establishment of at least four additional State experiment sta- tions, and for as many more of these stations as the Board of Control might determine upon. This Board, under the terms of the law, con- sists of His Excellency, Governor T. M. Campbell; yourself, as Lieu- tenant-Governor of the State, and Hon. Ed. R. Kone, as Commissioner of Agriculture. In the location of these stations I acted for Governor Campbell and represented him on the Board. The law providing for y the creation of these stations stipulated that two of them should be , west of the ninety-eighth meridian, one of them in the black land belt of North or Central Texas, and one in the rice belt of South or South- a east Texas. After the appropriations became available, September 1, 1909, the Board had a meeting at Galveston to receive propositions from the people in South and Southeast Texas relative to the establish- ment of the rice station. Propositions for the establishment of the » station were received from a number of different places, notably from i‘ the people of Bay City, in Matagorda county; Angleton, in Brazoria county; from Rowan, also in Brazoria county; Booth, in Fort Bend g-county, and from the people of Jefferson county. Subsequently, the Board received a proposition from the citizens of Liberty, in Liberty county. The Board therefore adjourned its meeting from Galveston i in order to visit in person these various sites that were offered for the location of the station. Subsequent meetings were held in Fort Worth and at Austin for the purpose of giving a hearing to those “ééiwho might desire to solicit the establishment of a station in the iiblack land belt of North or Central Texas. Propositions were re- .1 ceived from Denton, Greenville, Mart and Temple. At a later date a meeting of the Board was held at Stamford in order to give ;.a hearing to those interested in the establishment of the two stations iwest of the ninety-eighth meridian, and to receive propositions from the several competing places. At this meeting propositions were ifreceived from Spur, in Dickens county; Plainview, in Hale county; iLubbock, in Lubbock county; Sweetwater, in Nolan county, and ecos, in Reeves county. After a hearing from all the places com- ipeting for experiment stations, the Board undertook to visit each {place and investigate on the ground the best locations and the most favorable terms offered for the several stations. It took considerable to do this traveling, and at a subsequent meeting of the Board, m Austin, the following places were selected for station sites: At Amelia, near Beaumont, in Jefferson county; at Angleton, in Brazoria unty; at Temple, in Bell county; at Denton, in Denton _unty; at Spur, in Dickens couty; at Lubbock, in Lubbock county, i=1 at Pecos, in Reeves county. In addition, a feeding station, for __4__ the purpose “of feeding and fattening live stock for slaughter,” = cording t0 the terms of the law, was located at Fort Worth, in T rant county. All of these stations have met the obligations whi they voluntarily assumed in order to have a station established ' the respective localities, except Angleten, and the transfer of property at Temple has not yet been perfected. So that we have " actual oprat-ion si-x new State stations. ~s It soon became evident to the Board, after listening to the ar. ment presented by the citizenship of these various localities, th' the number of stations specifically provided for by law would v meet the requirements of the agricultural conditions of the Stat Texas is so large, with such varied climatic and soi-l conditions, t therefore Widely different industrial conditions, that four statiol in the opinion of the Board, would not serve the purpose for whic the appropriation was originally made, and would not meet the =1 mands of the people of the State for relief through experiment st_ tions, from agricultural problems which the farmers themselv could not undertake to solve. It was evident to the Board that tw' stations would be needed in the rice belt, one in the southern pa of the State, and one in the southeastern part; two in the black lan belt, oe primarily for small grain and Indian corn, and one mo 5 particularly for cotton, corn and oats in the central black land belt. Therefore, stations were established at Denton and Temple. In the western part of the State, with its untried conditions and i i. vast area of fertile land and varying cimate, it was believed that two; stations would not by any means meet the requirements of the eiti-Y’ zenshi-p of that part of our State. A station was needed on the plains, one on the lower plains, and in addition thereto one} somewhere near the Pecos river, where tests in irrigation could be made. Consequently, three stations were established in conformity with this belief o-f the Board; the irrigation station at Pecos, the plains station at Lubbock and the lower plains station at Spur» In addition to all these State stations, we have been doing cog operative work with the United States Department of Agriculturej on a tobacco station at Nacogdoches, Texas. For the part main-a tenance of this station, supplementary to the money furnished by. the United States Department, $1,000.00 annually was appropriated by the Thirty-first Legislature for the years 1909-10 and 1910-11. ; The law creating these stations also provided that all State stations 1', should be put under the jurisdiction of this Board. We had tw g stations already established, one at Beeville, in Bee county, since? 1895; and one at Troupe, in Smith county, since 1902. There are, therefore, ten State stations in all, eight of which have been estab- lished and are actually uitjler way. DEN TON STATION. The citizens of Denton county contributed a cash bonus of $5,000.00 for the establishment of a station adjacent to Denton and offered as a further inducement a tract of land, consisting of 101' acres, at something like $25.00 an acre less than its real market value. The site selected is just outside the city limits and had fairly __5__ good improvements on the property when it was turned over to the State, With 70 acres in cultivation and the balance in pasture. The cultivated land was already sown in wheat when the place was se- cured last April. It was too late, therefore, to make very many ex- periments at this station during the past year, and it was not con- sidered advisable to destroy this growing Wheat crop. A superin- tendent was employed at a salary of $60.00 a month to take charge of this place and conduct the necessary repairs by his own labor and a hired laborer, and at the proper time to gather the Wheat crop, which had been reserved in the purchase of the place as part pay- ment on the land. The crop brought $1014.40, and the place has been put into experimental plots of wheat, oats, barley and rye for another year. Some alfalfa has been sown and corn will be planted in the spring. The dwelling house has been repaired and repainted. The barns, which were in a bad state of repair have been improved and painted, a neat tenant house has been built, the field fence replaced or repaired, and the farm put in a thorough state of cultivation. We still owe on this place the sum of $2,300.00. FORT WORTH FEEDING STATION. The land adjacent to Fort Worth was too expensive to expect the citizens to contribute property in fee simple for the use of the station. * The Fort Worth Board of Trade, however, leased the most desirable j tract of land adjacent to the city for a term of two years, renewable at their option for two years more, and two years additional thereafter. i? So that the lease, by contract, runs in conformity with the State appro- Epriation for two years, but exists subject to the pleasure of the Station §Board of Control and the Fort Worth Board of Trade for a total pe- Zsliod of six years. The Board of Trade pays the rent on this place as 5; it falls due per month. The State took possession of the place the first of last December, and had considerable improvements to make. Feed- icing pens had to be constructed for steers, sheep and hogs; tenant houses _ ad to be repaired and some Work done on the fences. It was the first of February before we were ready to begin actual work with live stock. Experiments were conducted with steers, hogs and sheep, and the re- f; lts of the feeding tests will be published in bulletin form, now in the f» nds of the printer. SPUR STATION. We were given 160 acres of land and $3,000.00 in cash at the Spur j ation, just one mile from the limits of the town. This territory is en- 'rely new as a farming country, the little town of Spur itself being ‘nly three months old when we began work. We were, therefore, con- derably hampered at the beginning in the way of making our im- o» ovements. The land was mesquite prarie and had to be grubbcd, i» sod broken, fences and houses built, wells bored and windmills and tanks built for water. Our barns had to be built, and all [I necessary fences. Necessrily this was quite an undertaking in the ay of improvements, in view of the fact that arrangements had to be “l also for this year’s crop. In the course of time plats were ._5._ planted to diiferent varieties of Kaffir corn and milo maize, peanuts, Kolthi and moth beans, two new legumes, the seed of which were imported from India for trial, and diiferent varieties of cotton. At the same time land was broken for wheat and oats, to be planted this fall, and has been maintained through the summer in dust mulch, in order that all moisture might be safely conserved. The spring was very dry and considerable diffieulty was experienced in getting the hard sod land broken. Extra teams in addition to our regular sta- tion team had to be hired, and the land most thoroughly and care- fully prepared in order that we might feel reasonablysure of a crop this year. The crop has, however, been very satisfactory under the conditions. The experimental notes have not yet been made up, but will be reported and published in due time. We have three bored wells on the place, two tanks, 70 acres‘ in cultivation, fenced with rabbitt-proof wire, the balance of the place fenced for pasture. A nice five-room cottage for the Superintendent, two neat tenant houses and the necessary barns. LUBBOCK SILiTIOiV. At Lubbock we had to confront practically the same conditions that we found at Spur, so far as getting ready for a crop was con- " cerned. We were given 160 acres of land, some two and one-half miles out from town, on the open prairie, and the citizens of Lub- bock also agreed to put us up a Superintendent ’s dwelling at a cost of $1,800.00, and sink us a windmill well. These improvements were in time completed, but there remained much to be done on the part" of the State. The land had to be grubbed, fenced and the sod turned and properly pulverized in order that a crop could be ob- tained for this year. A tenant house had to be built and a barn constructed. These improvements have all been finished in a neat. substantial manner. The land has been fenced, an orchard was set out and field crops planted, but the drouth has been so severe that it has been almost impossible to reach any results this year on sod land. We will have little to report from this station in the way of satisfactory results from experimental work, but with the fall rains which have come in that locality, small grains have been planted and the orhcard and vineyard. which died out last summer, will be re- - newed. PECOS STATION. On account of the unexpected financial condition of the country. which has borne more heavily upon the people of West Texas than upon any other district of the State, and because of certain local financial obligations which the people of Reeves county had already assumed, Pecos has been very slow in perfecting the improvements which were agreed upon between the town and the Station Board when the station was located there. However, eighty acres of land. about two and one-half miles from town, has been turned over to the State. A well sunk and a splendid supply of water has been ob-i tained, and the necessary equipment of engine and pumping ma- __7_ 'ery has been installed. The State took charge of the property first of November. A Superintendent’s house has been built, a T}: ant house and a barn. The land has been fenced, about 3O acres gbbed and broken, and some of it has been prepared for irrigation. f» orchard will be set out this winter and regular field experiment ,1 a next spring. A young man from California has been secured Superintendent, and the station will be developed as rapidly as ible. ' BEAUMONT STATION. {l1 citizens of Beaumont gave 100 acres of land and put up a f! five-room cottage for the Superintendent and built a very good in The place is located immediately between a station on the thern Pacific Railroad known as Amelia and one on the Frisco _ oad known as Elizabeth, five miles west of Beaumont. The railroads at this place are about one-half a mile apart, and a f. road connects the two stations. The land, therefore, fronts on a 'c road, with the Southern Pacific on the south and the Frisco on forth. It was fenced on two sides, and a part of the ground had j indifferently plowed. It was necessary, however, to build addi- fy fences, to build a yard fence and lot fences, to dig drainage j: s and construct levees. All the land had to be rebroken. How- .we succeeded in getting in our crops of rice, of Indian corn, uts, cowpeas and sorghum. The results have been fairly satis- ;f' but we have been considerably bothered on account of our i}: being new, permitting the water to leak from the irrigated land ,e hon-irrigated land. Our corn was late, but our rice crop was ,; our cotton, peanuts and sorghum crops were all good. Results l; work will be reported later in a printed bulletin. k >X< %(= 3% not necessary to go into details here of the work done at Troupe eeville during the past year. It would require too much space 3; eport of this kind, but the results will be published in bulletins. PURCHASE OF STOCK FOR THE NEW STATIONS. en it became evident that as many as seven or eight new sta- lwould be established, I began inquiry in regard to the purchase =- or mules for these stations. I was anxious to put in good mares at all of the stations, except Temple, Angleton and Beau- I and I thought mules ought to be purchased for these stations. ‘lefore purchased four good mules for the Beaumont station ',nt an experienced buyer to Iowa to purchase grade draft i‘ for the other stations, since it was impossible to obtain them f1: State, and purchased a carload lot. These were distributed Fs, Lubbock, Spur, Fort Worth, Denton and one at Troupe. e without exception high-grade mares, and have given most Ltory service. They have all been bred, but not all of them gfoal. At a later date a brief bulletin will be published on the of brood mares on the farm. We have gained some important _;.u that we believe will be of value to farmers of the State. __3__ I have not been disappointed in the purchase 0r "se of these y‘ instead of using mules, but there are certain conditions which A important to know in order to gain the best results by the fl mares instead of mules. ~ OTHER EQUIPMENT. It has been a large expense to the State to buy the necessary eq‘ ment and teams for these farms. Wagons, plows, barrows, plan hoes, axes and harness all had t; be purhcased outright. In addi‘ there Were constant little expenses, as there are even on the simp farm, that could not be anticipated, and yet had to be met in order maintain the farm. An experiment station farm should not only c f out experiments that would be of value to the farmers when the resu, » have been achieved, but it should serve in some measure as a of farm in its arrangement, in its equipment and in its neatness well-appointed condition. It sometimes seems, and the farmer l’ j quently believes, that the expense necessary to do this on his farm is unwarranted; but the final effect on the country at large m f be for good, and must contribute more to the material wealth of I community than is lost through the expense of labor. We have :0.- lieved in this system, and have endeavored to so equip the station . --{_ so improve it and keep it that it would look attractive. not only ‘_ the farmer, but to any one coming near it. TITLE TO STATION LANDS. The Board took the position that as agents for the State they would be expected to secure title to these several station sites in fee simp before incurring the necessary expense of improvements attached ' each piece of land. Therefore, at all of these stations, except at F0 Worth the State holds the land in fee simple; through the genero L contributions of the citizenship of the respective localities where stations are situated, the State has actually thus acquired more pr ,_ erty than she has expended in money. That is to say, the total a; propriation for the two fiscal years, beginning September 1, 1909 was $50,000.00 for the establishment and maintenance of new st‘ tions. I think it will be a conservative estimate to say that the prop- erty acquired by the State is worth $65,000.00. c SUPERVISION. By the terms of the law the Director of the experiment station a College Station is made Director of the State stations also, and a loca Superintendent is appointed for each station. In making these ap pointments the Board has deferred very largely to my judgment, and‘; I have endeavored to select men whose training would peculiarly fiti them for the position. Any sentiment of friendship or political pref-i erence has not in any way determined the selection of these men. As far as possible I have secured graduates of A. & M. Colleges, either; of the Texas College or some other institution of a similar kind, wh have been out long enough to gain practical experience in the line of __9_ work that the station would engage in. Where this could not be done I have selected practical men With some previous training that Would justify a belief in their fitness for the position. These Superintend- ents have given entire satisfaction and have justified my expectations. I have visited the stations as often as possible, and, Where practicable, have supervised the expenditures and given my entire time and en- ergy to station Work. The main station, at College Station, sup- ported by the United States government, has paid my entire salary, and has also paid my bookkeeper and stenographer, so that the State has been at no expense for supervision, except the salaries of local superintendents. With the growth of the Work, however, it will prob- ably be necessary to engage some additional help and pay for the same out of State funds. The Work at College and at the State sta- tions also Will likely prove more than one man can do, and it is hardly fair to encroach too much upon the funds of the national government, engaging the time of a bookkeeper and stenographer. Texas is so large that it requires a considerable time to get around on a visit to the several stations, distributed as they are over the State to meet the agricultural conditions of the different districts. A FINANCIAL STATEMENT of the money received and disbursed, With the amount turned over to the station treasury is herewith attached, and an inventory of all property at the several stations is on file in my bookkeeper ’s office at College station. RECOMMENDATIONS William C. Brown, president of the New York Central Railroad, said that America could better afford the cost of one battleship each year expended in agricultural experiment station Work than to spend it in strengthening the navy. The authorities at Washington, in reply to this, came out With the statement that not less than eighteen million dollars is being spent each year in this country by the agri- cultural departments in order that the productive capacity and effi- ciency of farms in this country may be increased. Of this vast amount a total sum of about one and one-half million dollars is spent in the several States, or $30,000.00 annually in each State, by the respective experiment stations. This leaves about sixteen million dollars t0 be disbursed from Washington. Some of this is expended in Texas: much of it in the Southern States collectively. If it Were equally divided among the States and Territories, including Alaska, it Would amount to something over three hundred thousand dollars apiece. Texas gets of this amount, through the various agencies of the Agri- cultural Department and through the United States stations estab- lished in the State under the direction of this Department, as much, 1 perhaps, as $40,000.00 annually, the Brownsville station alone receiv- ing $10,000.00 from the United States government. So that under the present system of dispensing her money from Washington for agri- cultural purposes, she is giving far more than she is receiving, but even at this rate the United States government is probably contribut- __1Q__ ing more for experiment station work in the State than the Sate con- tributes from her own treasury. We of the Southern States are more anxious t0 accept contributions from the national government than are the people of the Northern States, insofar as these gifts relate to agricultural work, although theoretically we advocate States’ rights and local self-government. There is no other insidious agency so inclined to undermine local self-government and so centralize power as the acceptance by a people of money from the national government for the industrial development of their State. This applies particularly to educational matters, when the money is expended directly from Washington, rather than through the regularly constituted agency of the State. I do not mean to imply that we should reject the aid we are now getting from the national government in the development of Texas agriculture, but I do mean to emphasize the necessity of the State doing her part in order that we may not come to rely too much on other sources for the improvement of our agricultural and industrial conditions. - The Fort Worth station ought itself to have at least $10,000.00 a year, and be enlarged into a breeding station, particularly for dairy cattle and sheep in addition to its present work as provided for by the terms of the law, namely, “feeding and fattening live stock for slaugh- ter. ” Within the next decade Texas, with the opportunities given her by nature, ought to develop rapidly as a dairy State and in the sheep industry. We must now send to Illinois or some other Central-West- ern State for high-grade sheep, and the best breeds adapted to the dif- ferent districts of this State is still a problematical question. It has been pretty clearly demonstrated that the Merinos are particularly suited for the western portion of our State, but practically nothing has been determined in regard to the kind of sheep that thrive best in the black lands, in East Texas and in South-Central Texas. The State ought to undertake and encourage this work, and it can be done nowhere else so well as at Fort Worth. The opportunity which West Texas has to grow cotton and raise forage crops should form the farming basis for the development of the dairy industry in that part of our Commonwealth. No other nitro- genous or protein feed has been produced in this country that is so cheap from a financial efficiency as cottonseed meal, either for dairy purposes, for hogs, or for feeding horses and mules when the proper precautions are taken. The West, over a very large division of its territory, comprising an area equal to an ordinary sized State, can grow milo maize, Kaffir corn, cowpeas, peanuts, and several drouth resistant legumes that are admirably adapted as supplementary feeds to cotton seed or cottonseed meal; a combination of feeds, therefore. that form the basis of the dairy industry. Supplementary to this industry, hog raising would follow as a logical sequence. Fort Worth is the natural outlet for a large portion of this territory. It is the city most frequently visited by the people of the West. The dairy industry, with the proper demonstration at that point, would spread to the West and Northwest, contributing greatly to he developmen of all that territory. Therefore, I submit the following recommendations: —-11—' .0 1. That a deficiency appropriation be asked for from the Thirty- Qgsecond Legislature, to finish paying for the land at the Denton Station. ‘I 2. That the stations be allowed the money received from the sale products raised on the station farms. This has been done in the ‘se of the Beeville and Troupe Stations up to the beginning of the fiscal year. The sum is not very much, because a demonstration ation is not conducted as a revenue producer, but the funds, of lurse, should be accounted for in the biennial report to the Legis- Wture. The sum, though small, Would materially aid at critical 7;“ toward the maintenance of the stations. 3., That the Thirty-second Legislature be asked for an emergency propriation of $5,000.00 for the further maintenance of the sta- pns during the fiscal year of 1910_-11. That the appropriations for the years 1911-12 and 1912-13, the next two fiscal years, be increased $5,000.00 annually. In dition to the money amounting to $50,000.00 appropriated for If establishment of the new stations, Beeville and Troupe have f received $3,500.00 a year for their maintenance and support. 's amounts to a total appropriations for all of the stations, $32,- .00 a year, and I recommend that this sum be increased to , ,000.00 annually, for the maintenance of the ten State stations, _| that an additional sum of $1,500.00 annually be appropriated publishing bulletins. ' 5 Very respectfully submitted. H. H. HARRINGTON, Director. ANCIAL STATEMENT NEW STATE EXPERIMENT STATIONS, SEPTEMBER 1, 1909 TO SEPTEMBER 1, 1910. . - ¢ - - - - . ¢ . - Q . - - - - - - - ¢ - . . . - - - . - . - . 1, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$ 1,463 41 f: ellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,053 86 lements, vehicles and harness . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,193 56 stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4,747 20 _ry of Superintendents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,599 16 ing Stuffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3,324 51 estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7,500 0O {i ding and improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4,318 96 I hers approved and unpaid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 70 _pended balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 14 64 ‘slative appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v$ 25,000 00 gciency appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000 00 rrant for real estate credited back to Station ' ‘ 2,500 00 i $32,500 00 $32,500 00 redit to State Treasury, sale of products, $1,267.00. C. W. CRISLER, Chief Clerk. s‘