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and gave slightly better results than the use of molasses and barley 

 meal. Some work was also done on steer feeding. 



The Department of Agriculture continued the rotation and tillage 

 experiments, which are followed under a permanent plan, together 

 with improvement work on cereals and forage plants. The principles 

 of breeding were studied and considerable data on the subject were 

 collected. Five-year variety tests with corn in cooperation with this 

 department were comjoleted during the year and the results prepared 

 for publication. Cooperative work with this department was also 

 followed in variety and culture tests with field peas. Attention was 

 further given to growing soy beans and field beans in place of sum- 

 mer fallowing land. It is estimated that the hybrid wheats, origi- 

 nated and distributed by the station for the past four j^ears, resulted 

 the past season in an increase of 1,500,000 bushels in the production 

 of wheat. 



The horticultural department pursued work on orchard tillage and 

 cover crops, vegetable-seed production, and ornamental plants, and 

 gave attention to the introduction and adaptation of a great number 

 of fruits and to the efl'ect of different systems of pruning on the color 

 of orchard fruits. The veterinary department gave special attention 

 to a study of anemia in horses, of which an outbreak occurred in the 

 State. 



The farmers' institute and extension work during the year covered 

 a wider range than was ever before attempted. O. M. Olson, deputy 

 superintendent of farmers' institutes, resigned, and the vacancy was 

 filled by the ai)pointment of R. C. Ashby as assistant superintendent 

 of farmers' institutes, who entered upon his work in May, 1910. A 

 new feature was introduced by the establishment of demonstration 

 farms under the supervision of H. W. Sparks, appointed supervisor 

 of demonstration farms, beginning July 1, 1909. Ten such farms 

 were in operation during the year 1910. The several railroad com- 

 panies operating lines within the State showed a very active interest 

 in, and gave assistance to, the extension work of the college and 

 station. 



The following publications were received from this station during 

 the year: Bulletins 89, The Hybrid Wheats; 93, A Preliminary 

 Report on Some Experiments in Clearing Logged-off Land with a 

 Stump Burner — A Promising JNIethod for Destroying Stumps and 

 Logs; 95, Chou Moellier or Marrow Cabbage; 96, Hatching and 

 Rearing Turkeys by Artificial Methods; 97, Anthracnose of the 

 Blackberry and Raspberry; Pojiular Bulletins 17, A Single Spray 

 for the Codling Moth ; 18, Growing Blackberries and Raspberries in 

 Washington; 19, The Use of Fertilizer Lime; 20, Summary of Ex- 

 permiment Station Work; 21, Experiment Station's Hybrid "Wheats; 

 22, Tillage in its Relation to Soil Moisture ; 23, Trees in Washington ; 



