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enable it to extend and enlarge the already numerous and useful 

 lines of work conducted on its own premises as well as throufiliout 

 the State. The cooperative support of the farmers and their interest 

 in the station's work continue to increase and bring about a wider 

 and more general consideration of the results secured and the advice 

 given. 



lOV/A. 



Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station. Ames. 



Department of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 

 C. F. CuRTiss. M. S. A., Director. 



Little change was made in the lines of work of the Iowa Station, 

 which covers a wide range, but important addition was made to its 

 equipment, and a number of changes in the personnel took jDlace. 



The new agricultural building was formally dedicated June 9, 1909. 

 In this new four-story structure is located most of the agricultural 

 work of the college and the station, including the departments of 

 animal husbandry, soils, farm crops, horticulture and forestry, 

 agricultural extension, agricultural chemistry, and agricultural 

 journalism. 



The following changes occurred on the station staff: E, T. Rob- 

 bins, assistant aniuial husi)andman, who resigned to take up edi- 

 torial work on a well-known agricultural journal, was succeeded by 

 H. H. Kildee. I. O. Schaub. of the soils section, accepted a position 

 at the North Carolina Station and was succeeded by S. L. Jodidi, 

 of the Michigan Station, and A. A. Wells. M. Mortensen was ap- 

 pointed acting head of the dairy department, vice G. L. McKay, 

 resigned. J. Bower, assistant dairyman of the station, resigned to 

 engage in commercial work. L. G. Michael resigned as chemist to 

 accept a position with the Kussian Government as special expert in 

 connection with corn-breeding work in Bessarabia. H. G. Van Pelt, 

 assistant animal husbandman, w^as succeeded by A. Leitch. 



The Adams fund projects previously outlined w^ere further de- 

 veloped, but otherwise remained unchanged. In most of the work 

 very complete photographic records were made in addition to the 

 general records ordinarily kept. In the apple-breeding project, 

 chemical analyses of the crossbred ai)i)les and their parents were 

 made to determine imit characters. The beef cattle breeding work 

 has resulted in a considerable numbcu- of offspring through nutting 

 Polled Blue Gray heifers, White Shorthorn, Red Shorthorn, and 

 Galloway cows, with Blue Gray bidls of the first cross. These crosses 

 have already brought out some interesting points regarding the trans- 

 mission of various characters, especially color and polled character- 

 istics. The young animals secured in connection with the jjroject on 

 the improvement of native unimj)rovr(l cows by means of feed, en- 

 vironment, and breeding are already showing nuirked progress. The 



