value of cotton seed meal and Kaffir corn products as feed for horses. These are being fed in comparison and in various combinations with common farm feeds. Different methods of preparing feed for horses will also be studied. Field experiments with wheat include the following: Continuous culture on manured and unmanured soil, rotation with corn, oats, and cowpeas, manured and unmanured; rotation with castor beans, Kaffir corn, cotton, oats and soy beans, manured and unmanured; time of seeding; time of plowing; variety tests and seed selection, and pasturing to ascertain the effect on yield. The continuous culture and rotation experiments will continue indefinitely and reports will be issued at intervals. The experiments in time of plowing and time of seeding have been completed with the present season's work, and a bulletin summarizing the results for five years will be issued. Rye, emmer (speltz), barley, and oats are also being grown to determine their yields and adaptability to Oklahoma conditions. Corn is being grown in rotation as indicated, and variety tests are being made for the purposeof determining the value of different varieties when grown here. Kaffir corn is grown in rotation and continuously on manured and unmanured soil. The improvement of Kaffir corn by breeding and seed selection has been taken up, and its yields and characteristics are being compared with Jerusalem corn and milo maize. Cotton is being grown in rotation and variety tests are being made. A small gin has been purchased so that this work may be conducted more satisfactorily than heretofore. Forage crops such as sorghum, cowpeas, soy beans, rye, oats, rape, and wheat are grown and pastured by hogs, full records being kept. Variety tests of cowpeas and field trials of soy beans are also being made. Variety tests of peanuts and stock beets are being continued. Experiments in seeding alfalfa on bottom and upland soils have been in progress for several years and notes are kept on the growth and yield of various fields of alfalfa. Methods of getting a stand of Bermuda grass on upland soils are being studied. The horticultural department is carrying on twenty-five distinct lines of investigation. In many cases the same plats and plants are being used in more than one experiment. Fifteen of these experiments are variety tests and for that reason are continuous in their nature. The plan is to cut down the number of varieties in each test as rapidly as possible and arrange to continue the tests on a small scale only. These tests have been in progress for several years and include the following: Almonds, apples, apricots, blackberries, cherries, currants, dewberries, grapes, peaches, pears, plums, quinces, raspberries, and strawberries. An experiment in methods of cultivating, pruning, and training grapes is well started, and the vines will bear their first full crop this year. It will be at least three years before any definite conclusion can be drawn from this experiment. An experiment in methods of cultivating and pruning blackberries has been discontinued because of blackberry rust, which destroyed a large number of plants. Some results were secured and observations along this line are being continued. An experiment in apple orchard cultivation has been extended to include the growing of cover crops, and will be completed in two more years. This experimenti s for the purpose of determining the relative merits of different methods of cultivation and the effect of growing early crops and fall cover crops in the orchard. A study of the cause and effect of wooly root of the apple has been in progress for three years, but there are few indications that the work will bring to light the cause of the trouble. The effect of grafting and top-working trees is being studied for the purpose of determining the effect of grafting weak-growing trees in the tops of strong-growing trees. Spraying for the prevention of the codlin moth, using different insecticides and different methods of applying them, is being carried on. The effect of fertilizers on the yield of tomatoes and on the relative weight of seed pulp and solid fruit is being determined for the second year. Different varieties of beans and methods of cultivation are being tested. A variety test of ornamental hedge plants has been started for the purpose of finding desirable hedges for this climate, the privet having been seriously damaged by disease. A test of the relative merit of different varieties and species of grapes, when used as stock for grafting, is being made. The native fruit-bearing plants of the Territory are being studied and are being collected and planted as they can be secured. The purpose of this work is to determine the value of these native fruits as a starting point in developing varieties better adapted to our conditions than imported varieties. The department of botany is studying castor beans for the purpose' of determining the relative value of the different varieties for purposes of breeding and improvement. This work has been in progress for three seasons. Little was accomplished last year because of damage to the plants by the false chinch bug. Of about 40 sorts of castor beans used in this work, 20 have been eliminated. The collection of native grasses and plants is being continued as opportunity arises and it is hoped in time to cover the whole Territory. Entomological work has also been done as the occasion arose, chiefly in connection with the Hessian fly which appeared in a few localities, but which has not yet done much damage. The department of chemistry has made the fodder analyses of samples from the feeding experiments and determined the moisture in the soil samples from the field experiments of the agricultural department. As opportunity arose work was continued on the study of the composition of red and white Kafir corn as compared with Indian corn. Analyses of waters for the purpose of determining their fitness for irrigation are made without charge when sampled in accordance with directions which are furnished to all applicants. The following bulletins were issued during the year: No. 59, September, 1903. Reprints from Bulletins No. 47, 50, and 52, and annual reports 8 to 11. This volume of reprints was made necessary by the repeated requests of new settlers for information contained in publications of the station which were out of print. It contains nothing which, in some form or other, had not been sent to all of the addresses on the mailing list and was sent only to those who requested it. No. 60, December, 1903. Planting trees for posts, fuel, and windbreaks. A report of the results of experiments in tree planting made at the station and of observations of the results secured on farms in different portions of the Territory. No. 61, January, 1904. Field experiments. A report of the results of experiments covering several years with sugar beets and mangels grown for stock feed, Kafir corn and Indian corn grown on upland soil, and oats. No. 62, May, 1904. Disinfecting power of coal-tar dips. A report of the results of laboratory tests of Car-Cul, Chloro-Naptholeum, Cremoline, Creolin-Pearson, Lincoln Dip. Moore's Hog Remedy, and Zenoleum, and of Mortipest and kerosene emulsion. No. 63, May, 1904. Tuberculosis in hogs. A report of experiments in the transmission of tuberculosis to hogs by feeding them milk from tuberculous cows. Press Bulletins Nos. 98 to 109. These were issued monthly and contained timely notes of the results of the station's work. They will be reprinted in the annual report of the station, which is now in press. The mailing list of the station continues increasing at a rate which makes it impossible to supply copies of bulletins to all who ask for them after they have been sent to the regular mailing list. The mailing list now contains 19,289 names. In addition to this is the official mailing list furnished by the Office of Experiment Stations of the United States Department of Agriculture, making 21,000 copies of each publication necessary to supply the regular list. About 500 requests for bulletins are received each month. The usefulness of the station, through the medium of correspondence, is constantly increasing. This is one of the most important means of bringing the work of the station close to the every-day life of the farm and of keeping the members of the staff in close touch with conditions in remote parts of the Territory. All questions are promptly and carefully answered and, when possible, bulletins covering the subject-matter of the inquiry are sent so that more complete information than can be given by letter may be supplied. The station cooperated with the board of agriculture in the work of farmers' institutes by sending one or more members of its staff to each of the annual meetings of the county institutes, with two exceptions. Members of the station staff were present at three other farmers' institutes and acted as judges of live stock at four county fairs. It is of great importance that station workers have an opportunity to attend these meetings so that they may present the results of the station's experiments and gather much of practical value from the other speakers and from the discussions. To an unusual degree the farmers of the Territory study the results of the experiments made at the station and apply the results to their own operations. CLIMATE AND CROPS. [C. M. Strong, section director.] SYNOPSIS OF WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORIES FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1904. July.-Temperature and precipitation conditions were favorable during the first two weeks and at the close of the month; during the intervening period a droughty condition and heat caused all crops to suffer. Cultivation of crops and plowing for wheat progressed at intervals, being delayed by hard ground. Corn, generally, made a fair growth, earing out well, and maintaining its condition despite the drought. Over the western portion of the section the insufficient rainfall and heat caused corn to deteriorate in condition and shortened it from a fair to a half crop prospect. The early corn was nearly made and the late was filling well where rain fell. Cotton improved rapidly in condition; the plant squared, bloomed and fruited well, and was in a fair to good condition, though small and late. Barley, millet, alfala, hay, potatoes, and |