194 KEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



soil when deficient in the three principal plant-food elements., and 

 the availability of floats when mixed with cow dung at the time of 

 planting, when mixed with it several months previously, and when 

 used without dung. The chemist cooperated with the agronomist 

 to the extent of analyzing the materials used in the conduct of the 

 field experiments as well as certain of the crops. 



The station cooperated with farmers in most of the townships of 

 the State in the growing of alfalfa and with farmers in the southern 

 part of the State in an effort to introduce asparagus culture and 

 other crops suited to sandy lands. The extension work of the station 

 was limited to a few lectures delivered under the auspices of the 

 college extension department. 



The publications received from this station during the year were 

 as follows: Bulletins 140, Abstracts of Feeding Experiments — 

 Analyses of Feeding Stuffs; 141, Blackhead in Turkeys — A Study 

 of Avian Coccidiosis (with abstract number) ; 142, The Availability 

 of Certain Unusual Nitrogenous Manures; 143, Nitrogen Content 

 and Yield of Crops as Affected by Different Nitrogenous Manures; 

 144, Fowl Cholera and Methods of Combating It; and the Annual 

 Report for 1910. 



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

 lows: 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $15,000.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 15,000.00 



Miscellaneous 2,040.65 



Balance from previous year 2, 962. 15 



Total 35,002. 80 



The affairs of the Rhode Island station are generally in good con- 

 dition and its lines of work, many of which are highly important 

 from a scientific as well as a practical standpoint, are actively 

 pursued. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Clemson College. 



Department of Clemson Agricultural College. 



J. N. Harper, B. S., M. Agr., Director. 



At the South Carolina station the work in animal husbandry, 

 veterinary science, and entomology was reorganized during the past 

 year. The station veterinarian resigned and several assistants were 

 appointed on the staff during the year, otherwise the personnel 

 remained the same as the year before. A new dairy building, costing 

 about $2.5,000, to be used by the college and station, was in course of 

 construction, and land was acquired for a new dairy barn to cost 

 about $15,000. The new horticultural grounds are well laid out and 



