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are obtained by alternating corn with blood-meal, tankage, and bran. 

 One pound of cotton-seed meal fed in a ration for brood sows re- 

 mained without fatal results. A bulletin jjublis^ed during the year 

 gives an account of feeding experiments with pigs and compares the 

 capability of the lard and bacon breeds in utilizing wild and narrow 

 rations. 



The horticultural department continued experiments Avith chemicals 

 for the destruction of injurious sprouts, investigated the effectiveness 

 of dift'erent substances for spraying, tested methods of cultivating 

 strawberries, conducted experiments with potatoes, including spray- 

 ing, fertilizers, and cultural methods, and made a study of diseases 

 of tomatoes and apples. 



The agronomist has started work on the phj^sical character of the 

 cotton plant, especially the fruiting portion, in relation to the yield 

 and (juality. the methods of seeding and cultivating forage crops, 

 and the inoculation of the soil for clovers and alfalfa. TJice experi- 

 ments will be carried on at Lonoke, and Avill include studies of j^lant 

 improvement b}^ selection, varieties, fertilizers, rotations, drainage, 

 and conditions favoring blight. The field-crop work will be con- 

 ducted at Fayetteville and at the six substations. At each of five 

 substations 20 acres are devoted to field experiments and at Lonoke 

 190 acres. Four of the substations were opened last A'^ear. 



The dairj' department has made a comparison of corn silage and 

 clover with alfalfa hay, and alfalfa meal and bran as feeds for dairy 

 cows. In butter making the moisture content of butter was studied, 

 and an experiment was made with sweet pasteurized cream with a 

 culture added versus the same kind of cream churned immediately 

 after separation. That department of the station was practically 

 self-sustaining during the year. 



Cooperative work with this Department was carried on as in the 

 previous year and consisted of studies on hog cholera, the Texas cat- 

 tle tick and its eradication, and variety tests of Hungarian apples. 

 Cooperative work was also conducted with farmers of the State and 

 was limited mainly to the growing of crops. 



Tender extension work the members of the station staff are mostly 

 engaged in institute work as far as their time permits. Some of the 

 departments did inspection work in connection with tick eradication. 

 «)uti)ieaks of glanders and hog cholera, fertilizer and feeding stuffs 

 contr(»l. and mirsciT inspection. 



The following iMiblicalioiis were received from the station during 

 the past year: Bulletins lOI, Notes on the cattle tick and tick fever 

 of cattle. The tick eradication in Arkansas in 15)07 ; 102. The San 

 Jose scale in Arkansas; and lO.'i, The deposition of fat and lean in 

 hogs; and the Annual Report for lOOcS. 



