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Fertilizer Tests — The work with fertilizers on the Experi- 

 fent Station farm has been largely directed to determining the 

 relative values of peanut meal and velvet bean meal in compari- 

 son with the fertilizing value of cotton seed meal and nitrate 

 of soda. The results of the last year's tests will be made known 

 at once through the press, so as to help farmers in their pur- 

 chases of fertilizer in the present winter and approaching 

 spring. 



Investigation of soils — Painstaking investigations of the soil 

 expert have indicated the great decrease in crop yield due to 

 soil acidity, and have indicated that the application of various 

 fertilizers has a notable efTect in increasing this acidity and 

 therefore in increasing the need for the use of lime. 



Sweet Potato Storage — Both the departments of horticulture 

 and botany are pursuing investigations to reduce the losses 

 of Gweet potatoes during winter storage. 



Plant Diseases — The Plant Pathologist in his study of the 

 life history of the organism causing the disease citrus canker, 

 which at one time threatened to destroy the entire Satsuma 

 orange industry of the southern part of the state, has brought 

 to light important facts which are being utilized in the suc- 

 cessful warfare now being waged for the extermination of this 

 disease. 



Insect Pests — The Entomologist has brought to play, in re- 

 ducing the insect injury to stored corn, the results of his 

 successful study of the life history of the weevil responsible 

 for this damage. The methods of reducing the injury io corn 

 by this weevil found most practicable are the planting of seed 

 corn from ears having tips well covered and protected b> tight 

 fitting shucks, and the early planting near the cribs, (where 

 the weevils spend the winter), of small patches of early corn 

 to serve as traps for the weevil. By the feeding of this early 

 corn before it is throughly matured most of the weevils are 

 destroyed and their propagation on the main crop prevented. 



Feeding Hx])erinients with Hogs — The Animal Husbandry 

 department has obtained important results in showing the 

 effects of peanuts, peanut meal and other feeds on the (luality 

 of pork and lard. The feeding of velvet beans variously prepar- 

 ed is being continued, and chemical work has in recent months 



