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Press Bulletin No. 41. — Tests of Varieties of Corn in 

 1910; by the Director and Farm Superintendent. 



Press Bulletin No. 42. — Boll-Weevil Infested Area in the 

 United States ; by the Entomologist 



As stated in each of my reports for the last two years, a 

 large percentage of the bulletins of the Alabama Experi- 

 ment Station are now out of print. There is urgent need 

 that a number of the bulletins now out of print be re- 

 printed. However, this cannot be done unless a special 

 fund be appropriated for this purpose. 



An increase in the printing fund is also needed in order 

 that the mailing list of the Station be permitted to grow in 

 proportion to the increased need for information shown by 

 the farmers of Alabama. With an ample printing fund, 

 much wider publicity could be given to the fact that these 

 bulletins should be in the hands of every Alabama farmer, 

 and these bulletins could be published in much larger edi- 

 tions and on a wider range of subjects than at present. 



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i^^^" . -^ Staff. 



The Experiment Station has been fortunate in the past 

 year in having few changes in the Station staff. Mr. L. W. 

 Shook was transferred from the position of Assistant in 

 Animal Industry to work in Sumter county, conducted by 

 this Station in co-operation with the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He was 

 succeeded by E. R. Eudaly, a graduate of the Texas Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical College. In the latter part of the 

 year Mr. N. E. Bell, Assistant in Chemistry, resigned to 

 enter the employ of the Bureau of Soils. 



Agricultural Department. 



In order to reach correct conclusions regarding agricul- 

 tural practice, field experiments must be repeated through 

 a series of years. Hence, most of the field experiments 

 conducted on the Experiment Station farm at Auburn in 

 1910 were repetitions of earlier work. 



The work which has required a large amount of the time 

 and pains of the experimenting stafif is that in breeding or 

 improving cotton, corn, and oats. Satisfactory progress has 

 been made in each of these lines in improving the plants 

 under consideration, and a large mass of accurate data has 

 been accumulated, which, when published, should aiTord a 

 clearer insight into some of the problems of plant breeding, 



