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The correspondence has shown a large increase and reflects the increased 

 interest in questions of food production and soil improvement. 



Publications. — Publications of the Department aside from those issued 

 by the University, which are listed elsewhere, are as follows: 



Size of plots for field experiments with soils. By T. L. Lyon. Journal of the 

 American Society of Agronomy, vol. 9, p. 405-410. 



The effect of certain factors on the carbon dioxide content of soil air. By J. A. Bizzell 

 and T. L. Lyon. Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, vol. 10, p. 97-112. 



Soils and fertilizers. By T. L. Lyon. Textbook. 255 p. 



Top-dressing meadows with commercial fertilizer and manure. By E. O. Fippin. 

 Country Gentleman, March, 191 7, p. 6. 



Lime for Chautauqua county soils. By E. O. Fippin. Chautauqua County Farm 

 Bureau News, January, 191 8, p. 3-4. 



Open ditch drainage. By E. O. Fippin. Country Gentleman, December 8, 191 7, p. 8. 



Tile drainage in Ontario County. By E. O. Fippin. Ontario County Farin Bureau 

 News, April, 19 18, p. i. 



Soils, their properties and management, Chapters i, 2, 3, 4, and 17. By E. O. 

 Fippin. Farm Knowledge, April, 1918, p. 5-16, 17-30, 31-57, 58-65, 402-409. 



Recommendations. — For many years analyses of soils from different 

 parts of the State have been made. In spite of this the College has no 

 systematic knowledge of the composition of these soils, because the samples 

 were not taken by persons who understood soil sampling and the impor- 

 tance of recording the exact location so that the samples could be referred 

 to the series and types to which they belonged. If the samples were 

 properly taken the College would gradually be provided with sufficient 

 knowledge of the soils of the surveyed areas of the State to make unneces- 

 sary complete analyses of miscellaneous samples sent in by farmers. 



While some progress has been made in providing for the experiment 

 fields to be located in the important agricultural regions of the State, 

 the latest Legislature did not make a sufficiently large appropriation to 

 enable the Department to begin work on even one field. Efforts to get 

 enough money to provide for the equipment and operation of at least 

 two fields should be continued. 



A frame structure, with wire netting sides and concrete floor, is needed 

 at the experiment field for use in storing crops from the experiment plats' 

 before they are threshed. It should also have a projecting roof to cover 

 the concrete threshing floor, which is now unprotected from the rain. 

 Such a building would cost not less than $2000. 



Two additional men are needed in the extension work of the Department. 

 One of these would devote his time to drainage work of the same nature 

 as that now done by Professor Warsaw, for whose services there is such 

 a great demand that he can meet but a small proportion of the calls. 

 The other extension man would be engaged with the farm bureau demon- 

 stration work, which calls for a visit to each of the counties two or three 

 times in the course of the year to attend demonstration meetings and 

 go over the county problems. Both these men should be experienced in 

 their fields of work. 



