02 KKPOHT OF OFFICE OF EXPEKIMKNT STATIONS. 



GEORGIA. 



Georgia Experiment Station, i:.iiii riniciil." 

 Dt'iciituifiit (if (li'orj^ia S(:iU,' ("ollOKe of AKricullurc and Motlianic Arts. 



K. .7. Redding, Director. 

 OENEUAL OUTLOOK. 



The iiivostigations of the (icorgiji Station have been continued 

 Avithout material change. As a result of two years of observation on 

 the pupation of the peach borer it has been found that in the locality 

 of the station over 80 per cent of the larva' pupate during the month 

 of August, 15 per cent during the last half of July, and the remainder 

 earlier in July or in September. The establishment of these facts 

 will materially modify preventive treatment for this pest. This 

 station is carrying on a large amount of work with fruit, including 

 grapes, peaches, native persinnnons, and figs from France and Cali- 

 fornia. 



An experiment has been made in feeding pigs on cotton-seed meal 

 which had been fermented. Tlie method was to mix the meal with 

 middlings, make it into a slop, and then let it sour for eighteen hours. 

 As much as 5 pounds of cotton-seed meal a day has been fed to a 

 pen of three pigs without deleterious effect. The pigs gained faster 

 than those on linseed meal or dried l>lood. In the greenhouse an 

 experiment is being nuide in starting cotton in paper pots, the plants 

 to be set out in the field later. The object is to see if a month or so 

 can be gained in the season and an increased jneld secured. This 

 in view of the threatened boll-weevil invasion, and the better yield 

 claimed from the longer season seems important. In the dairy com- 

 parisons are being made of highly nitrogenous feeds, and experi- 

 ments made with cotton-seed meal to find the cause of the ill effects 

 of the latter. 



Among the investigations recently undertaken are i^lant breeding 

 with corn, cotton, and oats; a general inquiry into the efficacy of 

 commercial "" nitrocultures " and into the i^ower of the specific nitro- 

 bacterium of the cowpea to inoculate other legumes, and investiga- 

 tions in the life histor}^ of the cattle tick in cooperation with the 

 Bureau of Entomology of this Department. The station is also co- 

 operating with the Bureau of Plant Industry in diversification farm 

 ^\ork and is carrying out its own work on such a scale as to show 

 the practical application of the results. The title of the dairy de- 

 partment of the station has been changed to that of department of 

 animal industry, and the work of the dei^artment will be extended 

 to include experiments in feeding steers. There is opportunity for 

 developing work in a number of other lines if funds could be secured 

 for that purpose. 



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