Kansas Academy of Science. 341 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH. 



SUBJECTS UNDER WAY AND PROPOSED. 



p. F. Walkke. 

 AGRICULTURE. 

 Work under way: 



Experiments in dairy feeding. 



Deficiencies of corn as an exclusive ration for young pigs. 

 A study of the factors which determine gluten quality in flour. 

 Chemical and nutritional study of alfalfa. 



The effect of prolonged production of alfalfa upon soil fertility. 

 The effect of different soil treatments, under dry-land agriculture con- 

 ditions, on the nitrogen and carbon content of the soil. 

 State soil survey, and analysis of soil samples from state fertility in- 

 vestigations. 

 A study of nutrients in forage crops grown under different conditions 

 and harvested at different stages of maturity. 



Agricultural Experiment Station, K. S. A. C. ; C. O. Swanson, Director. 



Fruit bud formation ; soil treatment, training, value of spraying. 



Potato experiments. 



Vegetable trial garden experiments; the effect of pruning, staking 

 and spraying of tomato vines, varietal tests. Also tests to de- 

 termine the practicability of growing certain vegetables during hot 

 months. 



Horticultural Department, K. S. A. C. 



Garden project work. 



Farm management (students collecting data on social and business 

 needs and conditions in rural communities) . 



By Florence Billig and C. R. Phipps, K. S. N. S. 



The relation of certain physical constants, nitrogen, and acidity to 

 soil type. 



By J. C. Russell, McPherson College. 



Work to he started in 1917 : 



A study of the loss of sulphur in cultivated Kansas soils. 



Acidity in soils. 



Methods for the determination of acidity in organic materials such as 



flour, silage, feeds, and forage crops. 

 A study of soil colloids in relation to their effects upon soil texture, as 



well as upon general problems of plant nutrition. 



Agricultural Experiment Station, K. S. A. C. 



New method for determination of the moisture equivalent of soils. 



Crop yields under a rotation system and a system of fertilizers on the 

 College farm. (Same to include a list of a six-year grain rotation 

 and phosphorus fertilizer and manure.) 



Relation of fifth normal nitric acid soluble phosphorus to soil pro- 

 ductivity in case of some McPherson county soils. 



J. C. Russell, McPherson College. 



