OKLAHOMA. 181 



The agronomist carried forward the permanent plat work with 

 various field crops which has been in progress at the station for a 

 number of years and introduced a new series of rotation experiments. 

 A good system of card records was kept of this work, which included 

 variety tests of corn, Kafir corn, wheat, oats, and cotton, breeding 

 cotton for yield and quality of fiber, breeding corn for yield, continu- 

 ous culture versus three-year and five-year rotations, tests of winter 

 oats, fertility requirements of alfalfa and plant food requirements 

 of Oklahoma crops in general in cooperation with the chemist, and 

 tests of fertilizers in a new six-year rotation of crops. 



The animal husbandman made experiments with alfalfa, rape, and 

 other forage plants, especially fall-grown crops with and without 

 grain for hogs, but the work was interfered with by hog cholera. 



The veterinarian continued the study of the relation of bacteria to 

 flavor and keeping quality of dairy products. He further continued 

 the manufacture of hog-cholera serum with a biennial State appro- 

 priation of $7,500, of which $3,000 was available for a hog-cholera 

 plant. In connection with this work some studies were made on the 

 attenuation of the serum by heat. 



The entomologist made some preliminary observations on the 

 prevalence and transmission of chinch-bug infection and of the life 

 history and treatment of the melon louse, locust borer, and false 

 chinch bug. He also undertook a study the past season of the alfalfa 

 webworm and of food plants of bees. In connection with the work 

 on the food plants of l3ees the development of improved strains of 

 bees was attempted. 



The publications received from this station during the year were 

 as follows : Bulletins 89, The Chemistry of the Kafir Corn Kernel ; 

 90, A Study of Bermuda Grass. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as 

 follows : 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 14,639.05 



Balance from United States appropriation, Adams fund- 3G0. 95 



Miscellaneous 3, 764. 64 



Total 33, 764. 64 



The Oklahoma station has made progress in the reorganization of 

 its work and its staff, following the extensive changes in personnel 

 Avhich occurred at the close of the previous year. It is hoped that 

 its affairs will now run smoothly and without interruption. 



