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of the dairy pavilion, $15,000 for remodeling and equipping the dairy- 

 hall, $10,000 for hog-cholera work, $0,000 for a denatured alcohol 

 plant, $1,000 for soil inspection, $4,000 for live stock, $G,000 for horti- 

 cultural investigations, $1,000 for entomological investigations, $3,500 

 for the breeding of field crops, $1,500 a year for two years for experi- 

 ments in the use of preservatives for timber, $5,000 for the purchase 

 of lands for forestry experiments at Cloquet, $2,500 per year for 

 maintenance of a forestry experiment station at Cloquet, $-2,000 for 

 drainage studies, $400 for work on plant diseases, $1,000 for the study 

 of noxious weeds, $1,000 for alterations in the veterinary building, 

 $10,000 for the establishment and maintenance of a poultry depart- 

 ment, and $100,000 for an engineering building for the department of 

 agriculture. • 



A farm has been leased for five years to carry on experiments in 

 quack grass eradication. Twelve demonstration farms of SO acres 

 each have been established throughout the State and more recently 

 plans were made for seven similar farms in addition. Since the close 

 of the fiscal year the post-office address of the college and station has 

 been changed to University Farm, St. Paul. 



Marked progress attended the work of the year on all the Adams 

 fund projects. The investigations of the horticultural department 

 were along the line of plant breeding and were carried on in connec- 

 tion with the general plant breeding work largely followed at the 

 state fruit-breeding farm. In connection with this work, plantings 

 of orchard and small fruits are becoming well established and con- 

 siderable work is carried on in the greenhouses. The entomologist, in 

 addition to the life history studies of Empoasca mali, McKrosiphum 

 granaria, and Brucophagus funehris, continued the investigation of 

 the cabbage maggot. This work has been reiDorted upon in part in 

 a bulletin of the station."^ In the beef production project, calves of 

 different types and breeds are grown from birth to maturity for com- 

 parative slaughter tests and chemical analyses of the carcasses. The 

 cereal breeding project is essentially a study of rust resistance in 

 wheat, oats, and other small grains, carried on by tlie botanist and 

 plant pathologist in the field and in the greenhouse. The problems 

 included are the wintering of rust, the effects of red rust, and some 

 anatomical features such as the correlation between the structure of 

 the leaf and stem of plants and rust. A field laboratory method has 

 ])een developed to induce a local and controllable rust epidemic. In 

 connection Avith this investigation many selections and crosses of 

 wheat have been made. In the work on the food requirements for 

 milk and meat production, particular stress is now laid on meat pro- 

 duction and records are made for beef animals as were made for dairy 



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