56 Department of Soil Investigations, 



Recommendations. 



It is very desirable that the experiment field should be enclosed by a 

 tight fence. At present, three sides of the field are not protected, and 

 the fence between this field and the pasture on the north is a poor one. 

 Last summer the steers in the pasture broke into the experiment field 

 and seriously injured the experiments. Experiments conducted under 

 such conditions can never furnish results that are trustworthy, and an 

 entire year's work is likely to be lost at any time. 



Wagon scales at the experiment field would save a great deal of haul- 

 ing and save much expense thereby. Everything weighed in a wagon 

 must now be hauled to the north barn, nearly a mile away. Wagon 

 scales would pay for themselves in a short time. The writer hopes 

 that it may be possible to partition off a small part of the soils re- 

 search laboratory for that part of the bacteriological work that re- 

 quires the absence of dust. A room about eight feet square, similar 

 to the one in the dairy laboratory would suffice. The chemical and 

 other work in the laboratory makes certain of the bacteriological 

 work very unsatisfactory at present. 



T. L. LYON. 

 Professor of Soil Im'cstigations. 



