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The Florida station is well managed and its work is energetically 

 and systematically prosecuted. Its business is entirely separate from 

 that of the agricultural college. The new equipment is gratifying 

 evidence that the work of the station is much ax^preciated. 



GEORGIA. 



Georgia Experiment Station, Exucrimciit.^ 

 Department of Georgia State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



]M. V. Calvin, Director. 



At the Georgia station no changes in the lines of work occurred 

 during the year. L. J. Herring, appointed animal pathologist and 

 veterinarian, entered upon his duties Januaiy 1, 1910. After the 

 close of the fiscal year, P. N. Flint, animal husbandman, left the 

 station to take up similar work at the Arkansas station, and H. P. 

 Lykes was appointed in his place. 



Some progress was made in nearly all of the Adams- fund projects 

 undertaken by the station. The Texas-fever project was followed up 

 by the veterinarian during the season, but owing to a scarcity of 

 material little work was done on the problem of white scours in 

 calves. In connection with the study of Muscadine grapes 1,000 seed- 

 lings were planted and 200 crosses were made. Considerable work 

 was done by the horticulturist in cooperation with the bacteriologist 

 on Japanese plum wilt und tomato rot, and tests were made of the 

 use of sprays and fertilizers as a means of controlling them. AVork 

 on the tomato rot was carried on during the winter in the green- 

 house, and a bacteriological study was made with a view to deter- 

 mining the causative agent of the disease. 



The investigation of the influence of manures upon the bacterial 

 flora of the soil was continued, and work on the cotton red spider was 

 also carried forward. Experiments were made with reference to the 

 maintenance ration, and especially the protein requirements of calves. 

 For this work 23 calves were used, and in addition to the nutrition 

 study digestion experiments were conducted in which the chemist 

 cooperated. In the cotton-breeding work a number of hybrids were 

 planted and their character studied. Observations were made on a 

 large number of varieties of cotton with regard to their resistance 

 to anthracnose, and inoculation experiments were carried on, together 

 with laboratory work, on the effect of disease on the plant. The study 

 of nitrogenous compounds of the cotton plant has resulted in an ac- 

 cumulation of data about to be published. Investigations on the 

 potash and phosphoric-acid compounds were taken up during the 

 year. 



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