REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 223 



WTSCONSIN. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 



Department of the University of Wisconsin. 



H. L. Russell, Ph. D., Director. 



The past year at the Wisconsin station witnessed a continued ex- 

 pansion of the resources and of the organization of the institution. 

 A two-story brick building, 48 by 128 feet, was constructed for the 

 departments of horticulture and plant pathology^ at a cost of about 

 $60,000 (PI. IX, fig. 2). New greenhouse laboratories, provided last 

 year, form a part of the equipment for these departments. The old 

 sheepfold was replaced by an adequate office and storage building, 

 with root cellar below, and a two-story barn, 24.5 by 154 feet. 

 Quarters for the department of experimental breeding were also 

 constructed. A new agricultural chemistry building was authorized 

 for next year. The university acquired by purchase 187 acres of 

 lake-shore land, and a large part of this tract was reclaimed from a 

 marshy condition and brought under successful cultivation. 



During the year a number of changes were made in the station staff 

 and in the organization. A separate department of agricultural 

 bacteriology was organized, and E. G. Hastings was made bacteriol- 

 ogist of the station and head of the department. The work in veteri- 

 nary science was separated from the department of animal hus- 

 bandry and organized on an independent basis. F. B. Hadley was 

 made station veterinarian and was placed in charge of the new de- 

 partment of veterinary science. J. Y. Beaty was appointed station 

 editor, vice J. C. Marquis, resigned, and C. J. Galpin was selected 

 for research work along social lines as applied to rural problems. 



Active work begun at the Spooner substation included the clearing 

 and breaking of most of the station land and the construction of 

 necessary buildings. Work along similar lines was also started at 

 the Ashland Junction substation. Two experimental orchards in 

 this vicinity under the control of the station for the past five years 

 are to be attached for administrative purposes to this substation. A 

 third substation was permanently located at Marshfield on the 

 Colby clay,^the soil type predominating in several of the counties in 

 the north-central part of the State. The legislature of 1911 author- 

 ized the establishment of three demonstration farms and made the 

 location of these farms contingent upon the county board leasing 

 free to the regents of the university for a period of years a suitable 

 tract of cleared land and appropriating $500 annually for the partial 

 maintenance of such demonstration farms, while a State appropria- 

 tion for these farms was made at the rate of $1,000 per annum for a 

 period of five years for each farm. 



