64 EEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



restricted localities. TMiile no varieties were originated at these sta- 

 tions, the local varieties superior for each locality were discovered 

 and new ones were introduced where conditions seemed to justify it. 



In addition to these funds a sj^ecial aj^pro^Driation of $50,000 for 

 the biennium was granted by the legislature for extension and demon- 

 stration work and a correspondence course in agriculture. This has 

 enabled the organization of a special extension division, which co- 

 operates with the different divisions of the station and in all kinds 

 of extension work. Among other duties laid down for this division 

 is the publication of home-education bulletins, which are to give in 

 plain and practical form the results of investigations of the State 

 experiment station and the substations of the universit}'. 



Twenty demonstration farms, scattered throughout the State, are 

 conducted by the extension division with the cooperation of the agri- 

 cultural and other divisions of the station. Each farm is surveyed by 

 soil experts, drainage maps are supplied where necessary by the engi- 

 neering force, and cropping systems and farm organization are sup- 

 plied by the division of agriculture and farm management. The 

 station furnishes the advice and the direction and the farm pays all 

 the bills. The results so far secured promise success for the move- 

 ment. The university and station cooperated in exhibits and demon- 

 strations at the State fair. A special feature was the lectures illus- 

 trated by moving pictures. 



In Montana the Fort Ellis Reservation of 640 acres was turned 

 over to the custody of the experiment station for experiments in dry 

 farming. At the substation in Fergus County $5,000 was invested 

 in improvements and buildings, and for the horticultural substation 

 in the Bitter Root Valley $2,000 was allowed for buildings. 



Two additional county demonstration farms were organized in 

 Missouri during the year under the act of 1907, one at Clayton, in St. 

 Louis County, and the other near Lewiston, in Lewis County. The 

 chief lines of work undertaken were the testing of corn, wheat, and 

 oats, with some attention to fertilizer and soil fertility experiments. 



In Nebraska j^rogress was made in the equi^^ment of the new sub- 

 stations located at Mitchell and Valentine. At Mitchell special at- 

 tention is to be given to work in irrigation and dry-land agriculture, 

 and experiments will be conducted in cooperation with the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry of this department. The land and a portion of 

 the improvements were furnished by the United States Reclamation 

 Service. The Valentine substation is to study the crops and agricul- 

 tural methods adapted to the sand-hill region of the Stf.te. 



North Dakota has five substations, with a State appropriation of 

 $5,000 each, and 24 demonstration farms which are provided for in 

 a continuing appropriation. The work on the latter is largely rota- 

 tion experiments, with some trials of new crops. These farms have 



