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Missoui'i State Fruit Experiment Station, Mountain Grove. 

 Paul Evans, Director. 



The work of the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station has 

 continued to be devoted chiefly to the development of the fruit inter- 

 ests of the southern part of the State. Particular attention has been 

 given to the use of commercial fertilizers in fruit and vegetable 

 growing. 



The station is supported entirely by State appropriations. For 

 the past fiscal year $20,650 was available. Bulletins 13, on Commer- 

 cial fertilizers, and 14, Preliminary experiments in dipping nursery 

 stock, were the only publications received during the year. 



MONTANA. 



Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, Bozeman. 



Department of the Montana College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



F. B. LiNFiELD. B. S. A., Director. 



The past year at the Montana Station has been one of development 

 along several lines. Seven dry farms have been established in the 

 principal sections of the State, and experiments with cereals, sugar 

 beets, potatoes, flax, alfalfa, brome grass, etc., have been begun. 

 Notwithstanding unfavorable conditions during the past two seasons, 

 good results have been obtained. In this connection the localization 

 of rainfall with reference to the probable success of dry farming is 

 being studied. The work in dry farming is in cooperation with the 

 farmers of the State. The expense has been met in part by a special 

 State appropriation and in part by contributions from the Xorthern 

 Pacific and Great Northern railways. 



Irrigation and drainage investigations have been extended at the 

 station and at different points in the State. Special attention has 

 been given to the drainage of seeped lands, the use of seepage water 

 for irrigation, the prevention of seepage from ditches by cementing, 

 and the pumping of w^ater with windmills and engines for supplement- 

 ary irrigation. AVith a view to developing a department of agricul- 

 tural engineering the title of the head of the department has been 

 changed and an assistant has been appointed. 



The w^ork in botany, zoology, and entomology has been merged 

 in a new department of biology, with the former entomologist at its 

 head. An assistant botanist has been added, who will give special 

 attention to plant diseases, a field heretofore undeA^eloped. A new 

 insectary has been erected. 



The sugar-beet investigations, in cooperation with a number of 

 farmers, have shown that this crop can be successfully grown in 



