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Technical Bulletin ]S'(). 11 — How Contact Insecticides Kill, by George 

 D. Shafer. 



Circular No. 13 — Winter Vetch as a Cover Crop for ^Michigan Or- 

 chards, bv H. J. Eustace. 



Circular No. 14— Top Workino- (Hd Apple Trees, by C. V. Halligan. 



Circular No. 15 — Potato Culture, by 11. J. Eustace. 



Circular No. IG — Sandy Soils of Western and Northern ^Michigan, by 

 J. A. Jeffer;\^ 



Circular No. 17 — The ^Michigan Woodlol. by J. Fred Baker. 



Press BuUelin No. 25 — Announcement of Sjiecial Bulletins 5G and 57. 



Press Bulletin No. 20 — Forestry Extension Work, by R. S. Shaw. 



Press Bulletin No. 27 — Germinating Qualities of Seed Beans in Michi- 

 gan, by V. M. Shoesmith. 



The following changes liave been made in tlie organization of the work 

 in the Upper Peninsula. At a meeting of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture held ]\rarch 2()th. ^[r. L. M. Geismar, Su]terint('ndent of the Sub- 

 station at Chatliam wms offered the jiosition of Agiicnltural lOxtensiou 

 I'xpert for the Tj^jjer Peninsula ^^•hicll he acceiJlcd, transferi'ing his 

 lieadquai-ters to INIarquette, Mich. Mr. Boswell G. Carr an M. A. C. 

 graduate of 1908 was appointed superintendent of the Sub-station at 

 Chatham to succeed ^fr. Geismar. 



The activities of Ihe work at Chatham have been greally enlarged and 

 accelerated. One hundred and sixty acres of cutover timber land on 

 the section recently donated by the Cleveland Cliffs Company is being 

 cleared preparatory to swding and fencing. On a ]ioi'tion of this tract 

 wliicli produced hardwood timber all refuse is l)eing ]>iled and burned 

 and the small gnibs })u]led, leaving only the larger stumps with the 

 ground in condition to harrow in the grass seed. On the balance of the 

 area the loose material only is being rough burned so that the seeding 

 will have to be made Avilhout any attempt at covering artitlcially. The 

 work of clearing and seeding is also jirogressing ra]tidly on the original 

 120 acres from which all the timber has Ijeen removed except that on 

 20 acres. 



To aid in sui>pressing Aveeds. sj)routs. etc.. on the partially cleared 

 lands, a carload of yearling A\etliers including 259 head was ordered 

 shipped from Chicago, thus forming the initial trial in the use of sheep 

 in this section as an aid to other land reclamation methods. 



The following building ojierations are now in progi-ess, viz : The erec- 

 tion of a dairy barn 30x72 feet, a ]>oultry house 10x32 feet, and a piggery 

 to accommodate several head of breeding swine and their offspring. It 

 is the plan to stock the farm before the coming Avinter with a few dairy' 

 cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. It is the policy to develop this farm 

 as rapidly as possible from a demonstration rather than an experimental 

 standpoint, though the latter phase will be continued in keeping with 

 the local demands. 



Respectfully submitted, 



R. S. SHAW, 

 Director of the Experiment Station. 



East Lansing, June 30, 1912. 



