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tiiral division is cooperating in this work and is doing considerable 

 Avork with cowpeas, alfalfa, and other legumes, including wild speci- 

 mens, for feed and for soil improvement. Cotton is also receiving 

 marked attention with reference to its fertilizer and cultural require- 

 ments and the improvement of staple and disease resistance. In ani- 

 mal hushandry and dairying some work in feeding and breeding and 

 in handling dairy products for southern markets is being developed. 

 There is a continuation of the investigation of rice blast and the insects 

 affecting the rice plant, and of cultural and varietal work with fruits 

 and vegetables. The veterinarian is testing the oxygen treatment 

 for milk fever, studying the stomach worm in cattle, and doing some 

 work in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry of this 

 Department and with farmers on the eradication and treatment of 

 Texas fever. An attempt will be made to prepare an antitoxin for 

 Texas fever. The diversification experiments at the substation near 

 Charleston have been continued. 



The year has been one of reorganization at the South Carolina Sta- 

 tion. There have been many changes in the staff, iiacluding the resig- 

 nation of the agriculturist and vice-director, which took effect at the 

 close of the college year, in accordance with an agreement entered 

 into a 3'ear previously, and the appointment of J. N. Harper, for- 

 merly of Kentuck}', to the position of agriculturist and director. 

 The appointment of a separate director was made at the request of 

 the president of the college, who has endeavored to make a very 

 definite separation of college and station work. Dr. H. Metcalf, 

 botanist and bacteriologist of the station, has resigned to accept a 

 position in this Department and will be succeeded by H. D. House, of 

 this Department. 



The college is dealing very liberally with the station. It now pub- 

 lishes popular bulletins as a feature of extension work, and proposes 

 also to relieve the station of all expense in connection with the 

 farmers' institutes. With a strong staff and improved facilities for 

 carrying on investigations, and with a director who can give his 

 principal time and energies to the planning of the station work and 

 to its business, it may be said that the outlook for the station is very 

 favorable. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The principal lines of work conducted at the South Carolina Sta- 

 tion during the past year were as follows: Chemistry — study of dif- 

 ferent forage plants, plant food in soils; analysis and control of 

 fertilizers; botany — diseases of rice; field experiments — domestica- 

 tion of native grasses and other forage crops, tests of crops for eco- 

 nomic pork production, rotations, tests of sorghum and Kafir corn for 

 hay, experiments with varieties of wheat and oats; horticulture; 

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