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NOinU DAKOTA. 



North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural College. 

 iJepartmeiit of North Dakota Agricultural College. 



(iOVKUXIXf; HOARD. 



Board of Tru^7ttH^s: Alex. Stern {I'residcut), J'hrgu; J. 1). Moulder, Fargo; ]\Iaynard 

 Crane, C'oojierxtoirn; B. N. St(tne, Lumourc; L. B. Ilannu ( Treasurer), Fargo; S. S. 

 Lyon (Secretary), Fargo; Adtlisou Leech, Warren; Chas. McKissick, Mayv'dle. 



JST.VTIOX ST.VKF. 



J. U. Wor.st, LL. D., Diredor. Hugh McGuigan, B. S., Asslataid 



E. V. Ladd, B. S., Chemist. Chemist. 



C. B. W'aldron, B. 8., Horticulturist, En- L. R. WaUlron, M. A., Assidaut Bolanist. 



toinologixl. L. Van Efj, 'SI. D., V. S., Veterinarian. 



H. L. MoUey, M. 8., liotanisl. Nicholas Great, Farm Foreman. 



J. II. Shepperd, M. S. A., Agriculturist. C. E. Nugent, Secretary. 



J. C. McDowell, B. Auk., Assistaid Agri- O. \. Thompson, Superintenderd of J!Jdgeley 



culturist. Substation. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The North Dakota Station has made l)ut few changes in the lines 

 of work pursued. The chemist and ao-riculturist have undertaken 

 experiments with wheat to determine to what extent the gluten content 

 can be moditied or increased b>' selection and cultivation. The botanist 

 has continued to give nuich attention to investigations of diseases of 

 Hax and methods of controlling the same. Besides devising different 

 means for treating flaxseed to eradicate the disease, he has developed 

 by selection a strain of flax which is said to be immune to the flax-wilt 

 disease. He is also selecting and breeding flax for frost- resistant, 

 early-ripening, and late-ripening (pialities. At the present time he is 

 in Europe making an investigation of flax diseases, varieties of flax, 

 etc., for the North Dakota Station and this Department. The agri- 

 culturist of the station is carrving on investigations Avith harvesting 

 machinery to stud}' the efl'ectof exposure upon the length of time that 

 the machinery will last, and upon the expenditure necessary to keep 

 it in repair during its period of usefulness. 



The station is cooperating with a committee of the Tri-State Grain 

 Growers' Association in studying the value of macaroni flour, and with 

 this Department, as follows: With the Bureau of Plant Industiy in the 

 investigation of cereals, forage plants, and other crops, the introduc- 

 tion of improved varieties of flax, and studies on the influence of origin 

 of red-clover seed on yield of crop; with the Bureau of Chemistry in 

 studying the available plant food in soils, and with the Bureau of Soils 

 in a soil survey. It is making a plant survey of the State in conjunction 

 with a geological survey. The agriculturist of the station, as presi- 

 dent of the farmers' institute board, has spent considerable time in the 

 farmers' institute work, as have also one or two othei' members of the 



