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ticultuiist, resigned to become professor of horticulture in Ohio State 

 University, and B. (). Longyear, botanist, was made also acting horti- 

 culturist. A successor to W. Jj. Carlyle, aninuil husbandman, was 

 not chosen during the year, but the work in horse breeding, in co- 

 operation with the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Department, to 

 which he had given special attention, was carried on by J. O. "Wil- 

 liams, the department representative, pending the reorganization of 

 the animal husbandry department of the station. Fritz Knorr, as- 

 sistant agronomist, resigned to go into private business. 



Agronomy, with Alvin Keyser in charge, bacteriology, with W. G. 

 Sackett in charge, and animal husbandry, were organized as inde- 

 pendent departments of the station during the year. Since the close 

 of tlie year, P]. R. Bennett, formerly in charge of potato investiga- 

 tions, has been made professor of horticulture in the college. A poul- 

 tryman, W. E. A'aplon. was added to the station staff. C. A. Lory, 

 professor of physics and electrical engineering in the college, was 

 made president of the college, and A. JNI. Hawley was succeeded by 

 L. ]M. Taylor as secretary of the state board of agriculture (the gov- 

 erning board of the college and station), and disbursing officer of the 

 college and the station. 



The federal funds were supplemented by a state appropriation of 

 $53,000 for the biennial period ending December 1, 1910, including 

 $8,000 for investigations in plant industry, $10,000 for horticultural 

 investigations, $10,000 for investigations in animal husbandry, $5,000 

 for horse Ijreeding, $.").000 for poultry investigations, $10,000 for 

 potato investigations, and $5,000 for investigations in farm mechanics. 

 The last legi>lature also passed an act establishing a substation at 

 Cheyenne Wells. A new building (PI. II, fig. 1) to cost $40,000 and 

 to be used for instruction in civil and irrigation engineering and for 

 station and farmers' institute work, was nearly completed, and an 

 agronomy building (seed and crop house) was completed during the 

 year. A project system for recording lines of work of station investi- 

 gation was inauirurated. 



AVork was done during the year on five Adams fund projects be- 

 gun in previous years, but no ncAv projects were undertaken. Inves- 

 tigations on the composition and digestibility of hays (especially 

 saltbush) were practically^ completed and a bulletin on the subject 

 was published." The study of the relation of bees to transmission 

 of blight was temporarily suspended. AVork on the wheat project 

 was temporaril}' suspende<l except for some ])reliminary investiga- 

 tions bearing upon the develoj^ment (tf a spring milling wheat. 

 Studies in connection with the project rchiting to water of the San 

 Luis Valley in relation to soluble salts (alkali in the soil) gave some 



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