THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS IN THE SEVERAL 



STATES AND TERRITORIES. 



ai^aba:»lv. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 



Auburn. 



Department of tlie Alabama Polytechnic lustitute. 



GOVERNING BOAKU. 



Board of Trustees, Committeo on Experiment Stations. 



STATION STAFF. 



J. F. Dnggar, M. S., Director; Agriculturist. A. McB. Ransom, M. S., Second Assistant 



B. B. Ross, M. S., Chemi}<t. ChemiHt. 



C. A. Gary, B. .S., D. V. M., Vclerinai'ian. Thomas Bragg, M. 8., Tldrd Amslant 

 E. M. Wilcox, Ph. D., Botanist. Chemist. 



R. S. Mackintosh, B. Agk., Horticulturist. T. U. Culver, Superintendent of Farm. 



J. T. Amlerson, Pii. D., Amstmit Chemist. J. M. Jones, B. S., Assistant Animal Hus- 



C. L. Hare, M. S., First Assistant Chemist. bandinan. 



H. 0. Sargent, Assistant Horticulturist. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Ala]);inm Station lias continued to devote much attention to the 

 improvement of soils and the diversification of ag-riculture throug-h 

 the introduction of new crops and animal husbandry. For this rea- 

 son the most extensive work of the station is that connected with the 

 aoricultural department, which is conducting feeding experiments 

 with dair}' and beef cattle and pigs, experiments in the improvement 

 of beef cattle and sheep, and a large variety of field experiments 

 with leguminous crops as soil renovators and converters of nitrogen, 

 with forage and other field crops under fertilizers, with improved 

 varieties of cotton and cowpeas, and with wheat and corn from ditl'er- 

 ent latitudes. Home attention is i)eing given to a studv of soil-derived 

 and air-derived nitrogen in cowpeas in cooperation with the chemical 

 department of the station. Farmers in all parts of the State arc 

 cooi)eratiiig with the station in the variety, culture, and fin-tiiizer 

 tests of forage crops and other field crops. The chemical department 

 is giving some attention to a study of the availal)le ])laiit.food in soils, 

 the availal>le phosphoric acid in (he raw materials used in making 

 connnercial fertilizers, and in the making of sirup from sugai' cane. 

 The veterinarian is making a test of inoculation as a i)rotection against 



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