190 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Hiibam for forage, green manuring, and pasture purposes. A thick seeding 

 has resulted naturally from seed which shattered from the Hubam crop har- 

 vested in the fall of 1921 for seed. Apparently this annual sweet clover will 

 prove of value in the improvement of light and infertile soil and as a pasture 

 and hay crop. 



By arrangement with Mr . Ralph Hudson of the Farm and Horse department, 

 large fields of fromtento fifteen acres, were planted to selected Duncan, Golden, 

 Glow, and Duncan-Golden Glow cross corn. These fields were all well isola- 

 ted and will furnish several hundred bushels of each variety of highly im- 

 proved seed for distribution from the College. The seed used in planting these 

 fields was secured by careful selection from small increase fields planted 

 from the best strains of the 1919 ear row work. 



Mr. J. R. Duncan is handling the ear-row work and corn varietal tests in 

 the field. Mr. Duncan is also associating with Mr. J. G. Willier of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture on popcorn improvement work. 



Over-state varietal tests, which are being planted by Mr. Duane Rainey, 

 have furnished objectives of many field trips planned by county agents. 

 Valuable information has been secured regarding the comparative yields of 

 varieties and adaptation of crops. This work includes the following tests 

 well distril)uted over the State: wheat, oats, barley, rye, corn, soybeans, 

 alfalfa, millets. 



The members of the Farm Croj^s section appreciate the aid of repre- 

 sentatives of the following Experiment Station sections and the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, county agents and farmers in the field: 



Mr. Ralph Hudson of the Farm and Horse department has greatly facilitated 

 our work by interchanging labor and by aiding us when work in the field was 

 pressing. Mr. Hudson has entered upon arrangements which have made 

 possible the increase of superior varieties in a large way on the Station farm. 



Professor H. H. Musselman of the Farm Mechanics section has rendered 

 us great service by joining us in a cooperative arrangement, which provides 

 ample tractor power and equipment for our field work, threshing operations, 

 etc. 



Professor 0. E. Reed of the Dairy section is cooperating in determining 

 the value of sweet clover and the new Hubam by pasturing off allotted areas, 

 and feeding hay taken at different periods to dairy stock under test. 



Director R. J. Baldwin has made cooperative arrangements which have 

 made possible the planting of crop experiments at widely distributed points 

 over the State. This type of work is of the greatest importance in deter- 

 mining crop adaptations. 



Dr. E. A. Bessey and Dr. G. H. Coons of the Botany section are fur- 

 nishing careful disease inspection of bean and potato varieties. 



Mr. Robert L. Davis of the United States Department of Agriculture, De- 

 partment of Fiber Investigations, has extended his testing work with fiber 

 flax strains and planted unusually large increases of superior strains. His 

 work occupies approximately five acres of the land allotted to this section. 



Mr. J. G. Willier of the tj. S. D. A., Office of Cereal Investigations, has 

 contributed many varieties for our popcorn varietal tests and is cooperating 

 in popcorn imj^rovcment work. 



Mr. Wilbur Brotherton of the U. S. D. A., Bureau of Plant Industry, has 

 planted extensive varietal tests of beans from native and foreign sources. 



Dr. A. J. Pieters of the U. S. D. A., in charge of clover investigations, has 

 furnished us valuable help in providing foreign groMn clover and alfalfa seed 

 for our tests. 



