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cial apple culture in mountain regions; varieties of fruit for grow- 

 ing in North Carolina: annual report of farmers' institutes, 1908; 

 stock feeds; report on food adulteration for 1908; variety, distance, 

 and fertilizer tests with corn and cotton: peanut culture; the prepa- 

 ration of fruit and vegetables for market ; and orchard spraying. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural College. 



Department of North Dakota Agricultural College. 



.7. ir. Worst. LL. D.. Director. 



The North Dakota Station continued its work largely along lines 

 previously taken up, and was favored by state aid in the development 

 of its equipment and its experimental activities. G. L. Martin was 

 appointed dairyman in the station, and a number of assistants were 

 added to the .stalf. The erection of new buildings has allowed the 

 agricultural department laboratory space for its soil work and for 

 rural engineering, the botanist additional space for seed analysis, 

 and has also improved the facilities of the veterinarian and domestic 

 science Avorkers. A poultry house was constructed and other minor 

 improvements were made from general funds. An extension at the 

 exi^ense of $1,500 was made to the experimental mill building. The 

 last state legislature appropriated, among other items, $30,000 for a 

 veterinary building, $3,000 for a state serum institute, $2,500 for seed 

 inspection. $-24,000 for the biennial period for demonstration farm 

 work, $10,000 for the biennial period for establishing the Hettinger 

 substation, and $5,000 for wheat and flour investigations. 



A substation was established at Langdon on a quarter section of 

 land donated by the citizens of Cavalier County. Work on the sub- 

 station was begun during the year. A pure-seed law was enacted 

 by the legislature under which a seed inspection laboratory will be 

 established at the station. The chemcial laboratory building was 

 destroyed by fire December 24, 1909, at a loss on the building and 

 equipment of $03,000. 



Work on Adams projects is mainly in the departments of chem- 

 istry, veterinary medicine, and botany. In the project on soil fer- 

 tility in relation to the wheat plant, chemical examinations were made 

 of soils from the demon.stration farms and special attention given to 

 their humus content. In following a chemical study of the nitrogen 

 of wheat, samples of different kinds of wheat from different parts of 

 the United States were examined. The Adams fund work of the 

 botanist was centered mainly on rust resistance and yielding capacity 

 of cereals as possibly connected with .soil organisms. Four distinct 

 seedling parasites of the wheat plant which persi.st in the soil were 

 discovered, and it is believed that the=e may largely account for the 



