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plant pathologist at the Wisconsin Station. A. P. Bigelow, assistant 

 in dairying, has gone into commercial work, and P. A. Benedict was 

 appointed assistant chemist. S. Hargreaves was appointed station 

 gardener, vice H. V. F. de Thestrup, and E. H. Powell, treasurer of 

 the station for seventeen j^ears, was succeeded by C. P. Smith. The 

 State has definitely provided for the printing of publicaticms, which 

 will be a material assistance. 



The projects carried on under the Adams Act have progressed satis- 

 factorily during the year. The work on the bacterial rot of musk- 

 melons and the anesthesia of dormant plants for forcing purposes 

 is about ready for the final report. The study of potato diseases has 

 resulted in gaining important knowledge regarding the rosting-spore 

 stage of Phytophthora. A large amount of data has been collected 

 on the effect of feeding different amounts of digestible protein to 

 cows for a long period. Other investigations recently taken up under 

 this fund are a study of the causes, conditions, and prevention of the 

 damping off of coniferous seedlings; an investigation of the funda- 

 mental processes relative to the storage of sugars and other carbo- 

 hydrates in the wood and inner bark of the maple, the forcing of 

 plants with carbon dioxid, and a study of the relation of size of seed 

 to the character of the offspring. 



The lines of work supported with other funds are also progressing 

 and results are accumuhiting. The data secured in the cooperative 

 investigation with the New York Experiment Station on the soft rot 

 of vegetables are now being published. The forestry department 

 is studying the rate of growth of timber under different conditions, 

 methods for the prevention and control of forest fires, and related 

 questions. This department will distribute in the spring of 1910 

 through the station 200,000 white-pine seedlings, and has on hand 

 about 1.000,000 younger seedlings for later distributions. 



The dairy husbandman, among other lines of work, is making tests 

 of dairy cows in cooperation with three associations in the State, but 

 the station devotes little time and money to this work, the expense 

 being borne by the owners. 



The station is cooperating with this Department in breeding Mor- 

 gan horses and in studying, since 1904, disease resistance in potatoes. 

 Cooperative work was also carried on with farmers in the eradica- 

 tion of quack or witch grass and in potato disease resistance. 



Some extension work was carried on by the director. Exhibits 

 were made at fairs during the year, some members of the staff 

 addressed farmers' institutes, and a successful farmers' week was held 

 in the late winter. 



The following publications were received from the station during 

 the fiscal year: BuUetins 135, Commercial fertilizers; a quarter 

 century of fertilizer inspection, soil deterioration, and soil humus; 

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