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growth, cooperative planting in the State, and nursery work. At 

 Wooster, the nursery of this department contains about 225,000 

 seedling trees, including 10,000 ornamental trees to be tested under 

 various conditions in diflferent parts of the State. Work was carried 

 on in the reconstruction of three native wood lots at the station farm, 

 and several wood lots are also being reaft'orested at the Southeastern 

 test farm. From the nature of the work, the greater part of the 

 operations of this department are carried on away from the station. 

 Its cooperative work consists of work with farmers and with State 

 and municipal institutions. Out of 208 farmers applying for help 

 in forestry work, 73 api^lied for aid in managing wood lots, being 

 double the number for the previous year. Forestry work on the co- 

 operative plan was conducted at seven State and municipal institu- 

 tions and at one private institution. 



The cooperative work of the station was quite extensive and was 

 in charge of the cooperation department, which is well supported by 

 State funds. This work consisted very largely of studies of methods 

 in farm management, and four assistants were appointed and as- 

 signed to different parts of the State for the purpose of overseeing 

 definite problems. These assistants visit their respective regions and 

 supervise the experimental work. Cooperative field exj)eriments 

 were conducted with corn, alfalfa, grasses, soy beans, potatoes, and 

 other crops, and a few fertilizer experiments were started. The 

 State has made provision for putting a third station exhibit on the 

 road during the fair season, and the State railroad commission has 

 arranged with the railroads for a uniform rating for the shipment of 

 these exhibits to the various county fairs applying for them. 



In the farm-management work about 80 dairymen and 100 poultry- 

 men cooperated with the station, and on a small number of farms all 

 the enterprises entering into their operation were studied in coopera- 

 tion with this department. In addition to this work, statistics of 

 crop production were collected and arrangements were made with 

 the Bureau of the Census for a tabulation by townships of Ohio's 

 corn crop, in order to compare these data with the statistics col- 

 lected annually by the township assessors. 



The following publications were received from this station during 

 the year: Bulletins 203, Studies in Diseases of Cereals and Grasses; 

 204, Forest Conditions in Ohio; 205, Twenty-eighth Annual Report, 

 1909; 206, The Maintenance of Fertility: Field Experiments with 

 Fertilizers and Manures on Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, and Clover in 

 the Miami Valley; 207, The Balance Between Inorganic Acids and 

 Bases in .Animal Nutrition; 208, Protection of Fruit Trees from 

 Rodents ; 209, Rations for Fattening Swine ; 210, The Blade Blight of 

 Oats — A Bacterial Disease; 211, Third Annual Report on Forest 

 Conditions in Ohio; 212, Corn Judging: Studies of Prominent Ear 



