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Milling and baking tests of the station's dilferent varieties and 

 selections of wheat were taken up, and interesting variations have 

 already been brought out by the results of this work. A study of 

 two systems of fanning, one with and the other without live stock 

 was inaugurated, and the effect of deep and shallow plowing and 

 subsoiling was studied at the station and at the various State test 

 farms. This department also carried on a large amount of coopera- 

 tive work with eacli of the important crops in several counties of 

 the State. 



In animal husbandry, feeding and breeding experiments were in 

 progress Avith horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs. The sheep work was 

 largely conducted in the southeastern portion of the State and in- 

 cluded comprehensive studies on wool production, lamb feeding, etc. 

 The studies in wool production are prosecuted from the standpoints 

 of both the wool producer and the textile worker. The study of 

 various projDortions of grain and roughage in the ration for beef 

 production and in the use of various kinds of roughage for mutton 

 production Avas taken up. 



P^xperiments in pasture improvement were undertaken at the sta- 

 tion and at the Southeastern Test Farm, where work with poultry 

 was also begun on a limited scale. In the hog-feeding experiments, 

 the influence of individual animals, dry-lot feeding, different ra- 

 tions, corn with and without supplements, such as soy beans, rape, 

 grass, etc., were studied. The work of this department will here- 

 after include the production of meat and wool and the feeding of 

 horses, while the new department of dairy husbandry will take over 

 the management of the dairy cattle. 



The horticultural department made observations on self-fertility 

 of fruits, the value of smudges for frost protection, the use of fer- 

 tilizers for grapes, and on mulching with apples. In the work of 

 establishing a system of orcharding for the hilly regions of the 

 southern part of the State, it was found that the so-called sod- 

 mulched trees were of decidedly better gi^owth than those grown on 

 soil without the mulch or where the land was cultivated. The mulch 

 plats contained more nitrates and more moisture than the other jDlats. 

 Irrigation and cultivation experiments with strawberries and toma- 

 toes Avere begun in the open and the improved work Avith tomatoes, 

 lettuce, cucumbers, and other vegetables shoAA^ed good results. This 

 department Avith the department of entomology w^orked in coopera- 

 tion Avith orchardists in various sections of the State, with the result 

 that the possibility of bringing back many abandoned orchards into 

 very profitable production has been convincingly demonstrated. 



The forestry work of the station is now practically a separate 

 department. Its Avork consists very largely of experiments in mixed 

 plantings of coniferous and deciduous trees, observations on rate of 



