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building at sufficient distance to allow the addition of a wing to the 

 agronomy building at some future time and not have this interfere 

 with the light in the glass houses. It is also recommended that that 

 portion of the area north of the model rural school building which is 

 not needed for school garden work be suitably fenced and assigned 

 to the Department of Agronomy for some special research work 

 which Professor Lyon desires to conduct. The Department of 

 Agronomy also wishes to use all of the land lying between the dairy 

 and judging pavilion and the filtration plant, and between the poultry 

 yard and the new athletic field for the growing of various crops* for 

 student instruction and for use by students in carrying out their 

 thesis work. This area should be strongly and suitably fenced. 



During the year I placed in your hands an estimate for the reshing- 

 ling and repainting of what is known as the North University barn. 

 This building is greatly in need of repair'^ indicated in the estimate 

 submitted and are only such as are essential to its preservation. 



II. FEDERAL EXPERIMENT STATION WORK. 



As outlined in a former report, the policy of the Department of 

 Agronomy during the past three years has been to direct its investi- 

 gations towards f i ) the improvement of the grasses and forage 

 crops and the determination of the best methods of culture and ferti- 

 lizing in the climate and soils of New York State, and (2) the inves- 

 tigation of the best and most economical forms of concentrates with 

 "which to supplement the grasses and other forage crops which this 

 State raises in relative abundance. In the carrying out of this policy 

 the following experiments have been conducted during the past year, 

 a number of them every year during the past three years and most 

 of them will be continued or repeated next year. 



Year begun 



Timothy, individual plants 1903 



Root Crops, 1904. '* 



Clover, individual plants 1906 



Root crops, early planted, 1905. 



Alfalfa and timothy, soil solution 1906 



Soil fertility, poor spots 1906 



Alfalfa inoculation 1906 



Weeds affectin.a: corn 1906 



Root crops, field trials 1905 



Student corn 1904 



Potato rotation 1905 



Potato varieties. 



Grasses, varieties 1904 



