60 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



Tho publications of this station received during the past fiscal year 

 were Hulletins OO-TO, and an al)rid<i[ed edition of Bulletin 07, on the 

 •rrowth of crimson clover. Thv other bulletins are on the following 

 subjects: Soil bacteria and ni(ro<j:en assimilation; the new K-L mix- 

 tures and San .lose scale; dust sprayin<? in Delaware, top-«rrafting 

 nursery api)le trees; the study of the diseases of some truck crops in 

 Delaware. 



FLORIDA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of Florida, Lakr Citij. 



Department of Uuiversity of Florida. 



P. H. Rolfs, M. S., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Florida Station has completed studies on concentrated feed- 

 ing stuffs offered for sale in the State, on some forage crops, and on 

 feeding cassava and SAveet potatoes to pigs. It is planned to make a 

 careful experiment with hogs pastured on cassava roots compared 

 with corn as a standard. Considerable attention is being given to 

 investigations with Irish potatoes. The agriculturist is making fer- 

 tilizer and variety tests of them both on the station farm and at differ- 

 ent places in the State, and the horticulturist has undertaken potato 

 breeding in cooperation with this Department. The latter has also 

 begun a study of peach diseases. The station is cooperating with 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department in testing varie- 

 ties of corn, inoculating alfalfa on various types of Florida soils, and 

 growing hybrid oranges. The hybrid orange trees set fruit this 

 year. Locally the station is cooperating with growers in testing 

 fertilizers for oranges and pineapples, spraying trees, and fumigat- 

 ing nursery stock to free it from bud worm. 



The State legislature at its last session passed a bill abolishing the 

 university and five other educational institutions, together with 

 their boards of trustees and officers, and provided for the establish- 

 ment of two institutions for higher education (a university and a 

 female college), a normal school for colored students, and an insti- 

 tution for the deaf, dumb, and blind. A State board of control for 

 all the institutions, consisting of five members appointed by the gov- 

 ernor, was provided. This board, acting in conjunction with the 

 State board of education in selecting localities for the different 

 institutions, has decided upon Gainesville as the future site of the 

 university. The legislative act appropriated $150,000 for the estab- 

 lishment and maintenance of the four institutions mentioned. It is 

 understood that the change of the station from Lake City to Gaines- 



