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Circular No. 38: "Annual Report of the Director of the 

 Experiment Station on Work Done Under the Local Experi- 

 luenl Law in 1917." (From the Local Experiment Fund.) 



Press Bulletin No. !)(): "How to Save Alabama's Corn Crop;" 

 b\- the Entomologist. 



Press Bulletin No. !)1 : "Tests of Varieties of Corn in 1917;" 

 b\ the Agriculturist. 



Press Bulletin No. 92: "Tests of Varieties of Cotton in 1917;" 

 b\ I he Agriculturist. 



Press Bulletin No. 93: "Corn Insect Control Through Seed 

 Selection and Trap Planting;" by the Entomologist. (From 

 the Local F^xperiment Fund.) 



Press Bulletin No. 94: "Fumigation Treatment to Save Corn 

 and Peas;" by the Entomologist. 



ADAPTING EXPERIMENT STATION WORK TO NATIONAL 



NEEDS 



After Amei"ica entered the war heads of departments of the 

 Experiment Station were requested to give preference to those 

 projects having an immediate bearing on the increase of the 

 nation's food supplies. An examination of the projects then 

 in hand showed that so many of them already had this direct 

 application to food production problems that relatively little 

 ■change in the entire plan of work was made necessary \i\ (he 

 nadonal emergency. 



MAIN LINES OF WORK IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS 



The attached reports of heads of departments afTord state- 

 ments of the lines of work in progress in the Alabama Experi- 

 ment Station. It is in i)lace here to allude briefly to only a 

 few of these, and onh to results al the main Station, reserving 

 for a later report a statement regarding the experiments con- 

 ilucled undei- the Local Experiment Law in the various coun- 

 ties of the state. 



Plant Breeding — On the Experiment Station farm at Auburn 

 during the past year, as for a nundjer of years, a large amount 

 of attention has been given to the breeding up of new strains 

 or varieties of cotton, corn, and oats. In addition the breeding 

 of wheat, peanuts, and some other plants is in i)rogress. 



