114 HKl'oirr OF OFFICE OF KXPKHIMHNT STATIONS. 



I'l lU.lCATlOIsS. 



Tho Annual Report for 11)03, which inohicles brief accounts of the 

 oj)eration.s of the dilierent dei^artnionts of the station (hirin*; the 

 year, a statement of receipts and disbursements, reprints of the regu- 

 lar bulletins (Xos. 182-185) and press bulletins issued during tlie 

 year, and special papers on the following subjects: Nitrification of 

 dillerent fertilizers, studies in nitrification, nitrifying power of 

 typical North Carolina soils, the assimilation of free nitrogen by 

 bacteria, and determination of sulphates in plants. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Af/ricultural College." 



Department of North Dakota Agricultural College. 



J. H. Worst, LL. D., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The North Dakota Station continues to give prominence to the 

 origination and introduction of cereals, forage and fiber plants, 

 fruits, and forest plants suited to North Dakota conditions and 

 resistant to prevailing diseases; acclimatization tests of plants; 

 studies of rotations and methods of culture in their relation to the 

 maintenance of yields and of soil fertility; the conservation of 

 moisture; the destruction of weeds; study of diseases of plants and 

 their treatment, especially flax wilt ; the care and use of manure ; the 

 breeding of improved strains of cattle, sheep, and swnne, and tlie 

 working out of better methods of feeding farm live stock; studies 

 of dips and of practical methods of dipping for the eradication of 

 live-stock pests, and chemical studies of wheat and of soil fertility. 

 Among the new crop productions now ready for distribution are a 

 variety of flax, a six-rowed barle}^, a two-rowed barley, and a variety 

 of corn. 



New studies of the different cereals for immunity from rust, and 

 a study of the life histor}^ of rusts have been instituted this season. 

 Another new piece of work is the study of the amount of soil "water 

 to determine the efficiency of tile drains as compared with open 

 ditches. The employment of machinery in harvesting grain on Avet 

 land has been made possible by vising a gasoline engine for power 

 and mounting the machine on special trucks. The station cooperates 

 with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department in investiga- 

 tions with cereals, forage plants, and other crops, and in studies of 



Freight and express address, Fargo, 



