TENNESSEE. 201 



Chemo, and Cossack were distributed, and observations on the seed 

 production of individual plants were made. 



The publications received from this station during the year were 

 as follows : Bulletins 120, Progress in Variety Tests of Alfalfa ; 121, 

 Sugar Beets in South Dakota; 122, Creamery Butter; 123, Milk- 

 powder Starters in Creameries; 124, Progress of Grain Investiga- 

 tions; 125, Fattening Steers of Different Ages; 126, Alkali Soils; 

 Circular 1, Injurious Weeds Common in South Dakota; and the 

 Annual Report for 1910. 



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 15, 000. 00 



State appropriation, including balance from previous 



year 9, 985. 28 



Laud endowment, including balance from previous year_ 2, 089. 89 



Farm products, including balance from previous year__ 7, 022. 35 



Total 49,097.52 



The South Dakota station is pursuing substantial work for the 

 agricultural interests of the State, and its sphere of influence is 

 rapidly widening. 



TENNESSEE. 



Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Knoxville. 



Department of the University of Tennessee. 



H. A. Morgan, B. S. A., Director. 



The Tennessee station, during the past year, constructed a barn 

 providing room for work horses and for steers under experiment, 

 and a 100-ton silo was built adjoining the structure. The work in 

 bacteriology heretofore conducted as a branch of the department 

 of botany was placed in a separate department. Few changes oc- 

 curred on the station staff, the principal one being the appointment 

 of C. A. Willson as animal husbandman. Progress in different lines 

 was continued at the substation at Jackson, and cooperative work 

 with farmers in middle Tennessee was begun and carried on accord- 

 mg to a well-defined plan and under station supervision. 



The Adams fund work of the station on humus formation and 

 composition was continued, the effect of lime on humus being studied 

 especially. The work was carried on with four different soils placed 

 in cylinders with a cross section of one ten-thousandth of an acre, 

 and in drainage cans with a cross section of one five-thousandth of 

 an acre. Crops were grown under all of the various conditions and 

 the drainage waters from the cans were weighed and analyzed. 

 Studies were also made of the effect of different fertilizers on humus, 

 the different soils, and on cropping. 



