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13. Distribution of labor on a farm. 



14. The organization and administration of a profitable farm. 



15. Peach breeding for hardy sorts. 



16. Spraying fruits for insect and fungous diseases. 



17. Experiment in orchard heating. 



18. Fall versus spring planting of trees. 



19. Self-fertility and self-sterility of fruits. 



20. Study of tomato diseases in St. Louis county. 



21. Grain smut infections and control. 



22. Microorganisms in silage. 



Soil Survey. — In co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture, the 

 Experiment Station has completed a detailed soil survey of thirty-four Missouri counties. 

 Of these five counties, Nodaway, Ralls, Perry, Dunklin and Greene were completed during 

 the season of 1913. The soil survey forms the basis for work on the soil experiment fields. 

 The station is now conducting soil experiments on twenty-one fields representing twenty-one 

 soil types of the State. On some of these fields if has been found possible to double the yield 

 of farm crops and increase the net profits by proper crop rotations and the addition of fer- 

 tilizers. 



Fertilizer Control. — The Experiment Station has collected fertilizers from 81 Missouri 

 counties. Over 800 samples have been analyzed and the results published in Bulletin Num- 

 ber 109. The work of the Experiment Station in the inspection of commercial fertilizers in 

 this State has practically driven out of the State dishonest fertilizer dealers. The farmer 

 who purchases his fertilizers from a reliable dealer may be assured that the fertilizer contains 

 the fertilizing elements guaranteed by the manufacturer. The Experiment Station report 

 indicates clearly which firms are furnishing a good grade of fertilizers and which firms are 

 failing to supply a grade of fertilizers as good as their guarantee. We find that the agri- 

 cultural work in several departments is seriously hampered for want of room, and suggest 

 that the next Legislature of Missouri be memorialized to provide additional room, also addi- 

 tional land for experimental work, if possible, within the revenues of our State. 



Publications. — During the year the College of Agriculture has sent out 29,500 copies of 

 newspaper bulletins and 160,674 copies of regular bulletins. The following publications 

 have been issued during the year: 



Bulletin 107 — Farm Poultry House Construction. 



Bulletin 108 — Grass Investigations in the Ozark Upland. 



Bulletin 109 — Inspection of Commercial Fertilizers. 



Bulletin 110 — Forage Crop Rotations for Pork Production. 



Bulletin 111 — Report of tlie Director for Year Ending June 30, 1912. 



Bulletin 112 — Corn Silage for Fattening Two-year-old Steers. 



Bulletin 113 — Commercial Fertilizers for Strawberries. 



Research Bulletin 6 — The Distribution of Farm Labor. 



Circular 57 — Keeping Records of Dairy Cows. 



Circular 58 — The Missouri Fertilizer Law. 



Circular 59 — The Farm Adviser Law of Missouri. 



Circular 60 — The County Farm Adviser Plan. 



Circular 61 — Docking and Castrating Lambs. 



Circular 62 — The Chinch Bug and Its Control. 



Circular 63 — Inspection Service. Control of Insect Pests and Plant Diseases. 



Circular 64 — Directions for Testing Cream. 



Circular 65 — Advantages from Use of the Pure Bred Ram. 



Circular 66 — Cotton Seed Selection for Southeast Missouri. 



Index to Bulletins 97-104. 



Index to Research Bulletins 1-3. 



Your committee has examined the work of the various departments and notes with 

 approval the signs of progress in all of the activities of the college. Your committee has been 

 informed that impotent hog cholera serum has been sent out by plants in the State of Mis- 

 souri. We recommend that all serum manufactured in the State of Missouri be tested for 

 potency before being sent out for use by Missouri farmers. We recommend that all hog 

 cholera serum plants located in this State be operated strictly in accordance with the rules 

 and regulations of the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry governing the production of hog 

 cholera serum, and that all such plants be required by law to be kept up to the federal standard 

 in all respects. Under present arrangements, the State Veterinarian is vested with police 

 authority, and the State Agricultural College has charge of the manufacture and distribu- 

 tion of hog cholera serum. We further recommend that the distribution of hog cholera serum, 

 made at the expense of the State, and all police authority necessary in the control of hog 

 cholera be vested in one department, with a view that the State may hereafter be saved the 

 expense of maintaining two different departments for the control of hog cholera. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. E. SWINK, 



E. L. Newlon, 

 Mack V. Thralls, 



Committee. 



