■Agricultural Fair. 



The annual fair held under the auspices of the North Lou- 

 isiana Agricultural Society was again held at the Experiment 

 Station and was the best fair that has yet been held. This fair 

 is unique in that no admission fees are charged, the premiums 

 being secured through subscriptions by the citizens of Ouachita 

 Parish and the adjoining territory and firms who have com- 

 mercial interests in that section of the State. The agricultural 

 discussions held in connection with the fair are always product- 

 ive of a great deal of good. 



All of the members of the staff of this Station have partici- 

 pated in farmers' institutes and public meetings, in which agri- 

 cultural topics were discussed. 



Station No. 4, Rice Experiment Station, 

 Crowley. 



The work of this Station has been in charge of Mr. F. C. 

 Quereau, who has rendered excellent service in inaugurating the 

 work there. The plots have been very carefully laid out and 

 a series of elaborate experiments started. They embrace ques- 

 tions of fertilization, irrigation, crop rotation and allied sub- 

 jects. The United States Department of Agriculture is work- 

 ing in co-operation with us and has enlarged its field of work 

 in rice, giving special attention to a study of a very large 

 number of varieties and to the fungus diseases and insect ene- 

 mies of the rice crop. Very careful observations are being 

 made and records kept of the temperature, rainfall, amount 

 of evaporation and wind currents. This data will be very 

 valuable for future reference. 



A sixty horse-power double cylinder gasoline engine was 

 installed in the early part of the year and has solved for us 

 the irrigation problem at the Experiment Station. The deep 

 well with this available power gives us the greatest abundance 

 of water for irrigating the entire sixty acres of the Station, it 

 it were necessary. 



The foundation for a new barn for implements, grain and 



