EXPERIMENT STATION REPORTS 119 



KEPORT OF CONSULTING VETERINARIAN. 



Director C. D. Smith: 



Sir — As Consulting Veterinarian for the Experiment Station, I have 

 the honor to present the following report: 



The greater part of my work for the past year as consulting veter- 

 inarian for the station, has been in replying to letters received relative 

 to the diseases of live stock; nearly all these letters have referred to 

 some sporatic disease and not to contagious disorders. A few have 

 referred to contagious disorders and these have nearly all been sent 

 to the State Veterinarian, conditions being such that they required 

 the action of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission. 



Those letters referring to the ordinary sporatic disorders, in all 

 cases where the symptoms given would permit a diagnosis, were care- 

 fully answered; those letters where the symptoms given would not 

 allow a diagnosis, the writers were referred to their local veterinarian. 

 The great majority of the letters, however, have been received from 

 localities where there were no qualified practitioners. 



The sheep industry of the State is still suffering to a very great 

 extent from certain diseases which are caused by internal parasites, 

 the principal ones being the stomach disorder and nodular disease; 

 if some effectual and easily administered remedy could be found which 

 would destroy the parasites, it would be of great value to the sheep 

 owners of the State. 



Very respectfullv submitted, 



GEO. A. WATERMAN. 

 Agricultural College, Mich. 

 June 25, 1901. 



REPORT OF THE CONSULTING BOTANIST. 



Prof. C. D. St7iit7i, Director of Experiment Station: 



Dear Sir — The following report is a summary of the work of the Con- 

 sulting Botanist of the Experiment Station for the vear closing June 

 30,1901: 



The last two weeks in August were spent in making a preliminary 

 examination of the soil and plant life of the new Upper Peninsula 

 Experiment Station, located at Chatham. The results of the survey 

 are published in the first report of the Upper Peninsula Experiment 

 Station, Bulletin 186, issued in December, 1900. Considerable attention 

 was devoted to the examination of sugar beets growing on the Experi- 



