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varieties of flax, and of clover seed from different sources. Coopera- 

 tion with the Forest Service of this Department in tests of trees 

 adapted to the re«>:ion has also been arranged. 



A chemical building to cost $-15,000 is in process of construction. 

 This building will contain offices and laboratories for station work, 

 as well as for college purposes. A librar}' building is being con- 

 structed with $15,000 donated by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. This is 

 one of the few land-grant institutions to which gifts for this purpose 

 have been made b}' Mr. Carnegie, the others being the University of 

 Maine and State College of Pennsylvania. The food-inspection work 

 of the chemist has been so favorably received that additional laws pro- 

 viding for the inspection of formaldehyde, Paris green, and paints, 

 and for tests of the milling qualities of different grades of wheat 

 have been enacted, and the food-inspection law has been amended. 

 The appropriation for this work is $9,000 for the biennial period. 

 The last legislature also provided $10,000 for the establishment of a 

 second substation at Dickinson, in the western and drier portion of 

 the State, and continued the appropriation of $5,000 per annum for 

 the substation at Edgeley. The college is taking part in a movement 

 to introduce agricultural instruction in the i:)ublic schools and to 

 train teachers in nature study and school-garden work. 



The past year at the station has been marked by decided progress 

 in strengthening of force, developing of the work, and differentiation 

 of college and station w-ork. It is to be hoped that the State will 

 recognize the substantial benefits it derives from the station work and 

 provide sufficient funds to put it on a firmer financial basis. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted at the North Dakota Station 

 during the past year were as follows: Chemistry — mvestigation with 

 soils and fertilizers, study of gluten content of selected wheats and 

 of plant food in soils; Ijotany — studies of grasses and forage plants 

 and no-xious and poisonous weeds, and seed control; field experi- 

 ments — rotations, methods of culture, tests of hardv varieties of cere- 

 als and forage plants, selection of seed, selection and improvement of 

 })otatoe>, sugar beets, corn, clover, alfalfa, and other farm crops; 

 plant breeding — cereals; horticulture — variety tests of native plums 

 and other fruits and of vegetables, experiments with forest trees; 

 analysis of foods and spraying materials; diseases of plants — flax 

 wilt, rusts, smuts, etc.; animal husbandry — feeding experiments with 

 horses, mules, sheep, and pigs, and tests of the comparative feeding 

 value of brome grass and timothy; diseases of animals; dairying; 

 and tests of farm machinery. 



