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and of which from $G0.000 to $80,000 was used in experimental work 

 and for carrying the results to the farmers. 



Bulletins presenting the results of the work of the station were 

 issued during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910, on the following 

 subjects: Reports on Fertilizers and Fertilizer Inspection; Variety 

 and Culture Tests with Wheat, Oats, and Rye; Pecans; Annual 

 Report of Farmers' Institutes; Stock Feeds; Tenth Annual Report 

 on Food Adulteration; Oil Bulletin; Variety and Distance Tests 

 with Corn and Cotton; Fertilizer Analyses (2 bulletins) ; The Home 

 Canning of Fruits and Vegetables; The Culture of the Cowjjea ; Some 

 Common Birds on the Farm; Insect Enemies of Tobacco; Winter 

 and Spring Work in Selecting Seed Corn; and July and August 

 Work in Selecting Seed Corn. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural College. 



Department of North Dakota Agricultural College. 



.7. H. Worst, LL. D., Director. 



The lines of investigation and the personnel of the North Dakota 

 station remained practically without change during the year. Much 

 of the work, however, was interrupted and hampered by the burning 

 of the chemical laboratory December 24. 1909, which resulted in con- 

 siderable loss of data and material collected for Avork as Avell as appa- 

 ratus and equipment. The total loss was estimated at $63,000, in- 

 cluding $35,000 worth of apparatus. To replace this laboratory a 

 large and spacious fireproof building for the chemical department is 

 under construction. The new veterinary building was completed, 

 furnishing the veterinary department with an entirely new plant and 

 equipment with exceptionally good arrangements. The building is 

 constructed to form essentially three separate but connected struc- 

 tures, containing laboratories and classrooms in one part, a stable in 

 another, and a dissecting room in a third section. An operating- 

 room and a killing room are also provided. 



Progress was made in the Adams-fund investigations of the sta- 

 tion, although the destruction of the chemical laboratory retarded 

 some of the work. In the milling project studies were made of the 

 milling and flour and bread producing quality of wheats grown on 

 different soils, of diiferent varieties of wheat, of frosted wheats, bin- 

 burned wheats, and all wheats ripened in the stack as compared witli 

 shock-thrashed grain. Studies were also made of the content in the 

 flour of gluten, ash, and organic phosphates in relation to the loaf 

 volume. The acid phosphate content was found to vary considerably 

 in wheats grown on different soils and in different seasons, and also 



