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the station headquarters, besides additional fields for growing forage 

 for the. station live stock. About 15 acres are to be devoted to 

 horticultural plantations. The facilities in most respects are better 

 adapted to the requirements of the station than were those given up at 

 Lake Cit}^, and the soil is much superior. On the whole the outlook 

 for the Florida Station in its new location is encouraging. A period 

 of adjustment to its new environment is inevitable, but the ultimate 

 ejffect should be the rapid development and strengthening of its work. 



GEORGIA. 



Georgia Experiment Station, Experiments 

 Department of (Georgia State College of Agriculture aud Mechanic Arts. 



M.'V. Calvin, Director. 



The Georgia Station has continued its extensive field experiments 

 on fertilizers, cultures, etc., of feed crops, which have been carried 

 on systematically for several years. A three years' study of the life 

 history of the peach borer has been completed, which is believed to 

 be the most important work from a practical standpoint that the 

 horticultural department has as yet eifectecl. Experiments looking 

 to the discovery of means of control of the borer will be continued. 

 A special study of varieties of figs is being made in cooperation with 

 farmers in southern Georgia and Alabama and northern Florida. 

 The station has obtained from California, France, and elsewhere 

 over 100 varieties, and has arranged for the importation of other 

 varieties from Italy. The introduction of the Smyrna fig in the 

 southern part of the State is hoi:)ed for. The nomenclature and 

 synonymy of the domestic fig and the process of caprification are to 

 receive attention. Other horticultural investigations recently under- 

 taken include cultivation tests with peaches, variety tests of seed corn, 

 and field exi)erimentation with soil inoculation for crown gall and 

 the wilt of Japanese plums. 



Feeding exjieriments liave been undertaken to ascertain tlic relative 

 value of cotton-seed hulls for wintering steers, the amount of cotton- 

 seed meal which can safely be fed to i)igs. aud the relati\e value for 

 dairy cows of silage versus hay, and soiling crops versus pasturage. 



As a result of the passage of the Adams Act departments have bfen 

 organized in plant breeding and ]ilant pathology and in bacteriology. 

 Additional assistants have been engaged in biology and horticulture^ 

 and in dairy and animal industry, and the scope of the work has been 

 increased. Considerable equipment has been purchased for these de- 

 partments and additional buildings are to be erected. 



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