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The horticulturist pursued work on summer pruning of peach 

 trees, selection of potatoes for increase in yield by means of bud 

 variation as well as seed, and the culture of strawberries, together 

 with the use of fertilizers for the crop. Experiments conducted for 

 the control of peach blotch and peach rot emphasized the value of 

 self-boiled lime sulphur as a fungicide. 



The past year was the second in which operations were carried on 

 at the West Tennessee station, at Jackson. Marked progress was 

 made in bringing the station into good shape, and experimental work 

 was followed with reference to cropping systems, deep tillage, feed- 

 ing work, cooperative work with this department on cotton, variety 

 and distance tests, the use of lime, and other cultural work. The 

 feeding experiments were conducted with 100 steers and with feeds 

 common to the western part of the State. 



The publications received from this station during the year were 

 as follows: Bulletin 89, Stand and Soil Fertility as Factors in the 

 Testing of Varieties of Corn ; and the Annual Eeports for 1907, 1908, 

 and 1909. 



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, COO. 00 



Farm products 7,323.64 



Total 37, 323. 64 



The Tennessee station is making good use of the funds and facili- 

 ties at its disposal, is keenly alive to the agricultural needs of the 

 State, and is meeting with success in its work. 



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Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station. 



Department of tlie State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 



B. YouNGBLOOD, M. S., Director. 



Changes in the organization and the staff of the Texas station dur- 

 ing the past year included the discontinuance of the office of vice 

 director and the appointment of a number of assistants. Shortly 

 after the close of the fiscal year the death occurred of R. H. Pond, 

 plant pathologist and physiologist of the station, and H, H. Har- 

 rington resigned as director, being succeeded by B. Youngblood, who 

 took charge August 15, 1911. 



The organization of the State substations was completed during 

 the year and the following lines of work were entered upon : Irriga- 

 tion and dry farming experiments at Pecos; grain and forage work 

 at Lubbock; experiments with grain and cotton at Spur; experi- 



