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been very iDopiilar and helpful. They are supervised by two men who 

 are kept in the field continuously and visit them at frequent intervals. 

 Farmers' institutes and picnics were held at several of them during 

 the summer. 



Under an act passed in Ohio in the spring of 1910, the commis- 

 sioners of each county are required, upon petition of 200 or more 

 taxpayers, to submit to a vote a project for establishing a demon- 

 stration farm. If such a farm is decided upon, a tax not to exceed 

 one-fifth mill for any one year may be levied for its equipment and 

 maintenance. The experiment station at Wooster is to cooperate in 

 the selection of sites and the conducting of experiments. 



The Khode Island station has inaugurated a series of cooperative 

 experiments with farmers through the State, which are largely in 

 the nature of demonstrations. The station now has about 150 of 

 these cooperative experiments under way, the cooperators being 

 organized into an experimental union which holds an annual meet- 

 ing for the discussion of the residts of the experiments. 



Seven new substations authorized by the last Legislature of Texas 

 were located during the year as follows : At Pecos in Reeves County, 

 at Lubbock in Lubbock County, at Spur in Dickens County, at 

 Denton in Denton County, at Temple in Bell County, at Beaumont 

 in Jefferson County, and at Angleton in Brazoria County. The last 

 two named are to give special attention to rice problems. The 

 localities in which the several stations are situated have contributed 

 liberally for their establishment, in some cases donating the land 

 and erecting the necessary buildings and improvements. 



An experiment station was organized under the auspices of the 

 Association of Sugar and Sugar-Cane Producers of Porto Eico. 

 The association, formed in 1909, is financed by a tax of 25 cents on 

 each ton of sugar refined, or 2^ cents for each ton of cane produced. 

 The agricultural committee of the association has for one of its 

 duties the establishment of model farms, experiment stations, and a 

 technical sugar school. J. T. Crawley, former director of the 

 Cuban station, has been selected as director of the station, and it is 

 planned to secure a plant pathologist and entomologist and a field 

 oxjiert. D. W. May, special agent in charge of the Porto Rico Fed- 

 eral station, was appointed an honorary member of the agricultural 

 committee and is acting in an advisory capacity to the station. 



The Washington station has an appropriation of $17,500 for ex- 

 tension work, and $2,500 for dry farming. With these appropria- 

 tions it conducts two branch stations and maintains a considerable 

 number of demonstration farms which are conducted on the farms 

 of private owners. 



The Wisconsin station has 25 county and asylum farms (all State 

 or county institutions) under its management. These are made local 



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