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juid liiills, :m(l molasses has Ixmmi coniplctcd. The veterinarian is study- 

 Iml;- means of rendcrin*^" catth^ imiiiiino to Texas fever and of freeing 

 cattle and pastures of ticks. An is()lat(Hl ])asture and ((uarantin(^ sheds 

 and h)ts have recently been ad<led to the e(|nipment tor such work. 

 The station is j^ivinjj some attention to means of checking the ravages 

 of the Mexican cotton holl weevil, and is cooperating with the Division 

 of Entomology <>f this Department iii this work, as wcdl as in studies 

 on the San Jose scale and the Asiatic ladyl)ird. It is also cooperating 

 with tht^ Bureau of Plant Industry in eil'orts to improve the wheat 

 industry in the Middle West, with the Bureau of (-hemisti-y in studies 

 on the available plant food in soils and on the injiuenco of enviroimient 

 on the sugar content of nuiskmelons. 



The work at the Beeville and Troupe substations is being prosecuted 

 with success, altlK)Ugh handicapped somewhat at the latter place by 

 the resignation of the superintendent in charge. The win tei'-gro wing 

 of vegetables, especially cabbage and cauliflower, has proven a success. 

 A sewage irrigation garden has been established for growing fall 

 vegetables, espeeially potatoes, the fall crop of which keep Ix^tter than 

 the early crop. Experiments with tomatoes and in methods of jilant- 

 ing grapes are also in progress, as well as experiments on peaches in 

 cooperation with farmers in Smith County. The substations in Texas 

 have proven very popular, and continual demands are being made for 

 additional institutions of this nature. However, the substation com- 

 mittee of the Farmers' Congress wisely concludes that it is })etter "to 

 have one new station established with funds sufficient to equip and 

 operate it successf ull}' than to try six weak experiments that would 

 prol)a})ly reflect no credit on the experiment station movement in the 

 final summing up of results." 



The new building for the departments of chemistry and veterinary 

 science has been completed and occupied, and furnishes good facilities 

 for these departments. Work has ]>een started on an $S,UO<» dair}' 

 barn for the use of the colleofe and the station. At the close of the 

 year the director of the station and dean of the department of agricul- 

 ture of the college resigned to accept the presidency of the New 

 Hampshire College of Agriculture and directorship of the station. 

 He has been succeeded by John A. Craig, formerl}^ of the Iowa State 

 College of Agriculture, but for several years engaged in editorial 

 work. The agriculturist resigned to go to Louisiana and has been 

 succeeded by F. S. Johnston, formerly of the Indiana School of 

 Agriculture and station. F. R. Marshall, recently of the Iowa College 

 and station, has been elected associate professor of animal husbandry. 

 J. K. Robertson has been made superintendent of the Beeville Station, 

 vice S. A. Henry; and W. S. Hotchkiss, of Illinois, superintendent of 

 the Troupe Station, which for some months past has been under the 

 direction of E. C. Green, of the horticultural department. The 

 chemist has been given a year's leave of absence for travel and study 



