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the faculty of the University. A demonstration garden has been 

 established for the primary purpose of producing vegetables for 

 the University mess hall, and Mr. Tiebout will have charge of 

 this work as well as the experimental work of the Station. A 

 modern pumping plant has been installed and provision made 

 for irrigating crops during the coming year. It is planned to 

 produce all the vegetables that will be consumed by the students 

 in the University mess hall and have some to ship to northern 

 markets. The experimental work has continued along lines 

 previously outlined. Greenhouse cucumber-s were shipped to 

 the northern markets during late winter and very early spring. 

 The results of investigations in shipping to northern markets 

 numerous vegetables, especially suited to the bluff soils of the 

 state have given very satisfactory results. The citranges gave 

 quite a large crop of fruit this year and we were able to test 

 their merits on a much larger scale than previously. It seems 

 that some of these fruits will have a commercial value. Experi- 

 ments in the introduction of vegetable pears have been only par- 

 tially successful, as the early frost greatly reduced the crop of 

 these vegetables. We have not yet been able to overcome the 

 diseases that prey upon the globe artichoke, although some prog- 

 ress has been made in this line during the past year. 



DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND 

 ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 



Dr. W. H. Dalrymple has had a very large part of his time 

 taken up in correspondence, in consultations and aiding in the 

 establishing of the hog cholera serum plant and serving as a 

 member of the Livestock Sanitary Board, particularly giving 

 attention to the work of the eradication of the Texas fever cattle 

 tick, and various other duties that have been performed by him. 

 However, with his multitude of duties he found time to write 

 Bulletin 115, on our available stock feeds, and Bulletin 122, 

 giving the results of some of his experiments in feeding ground 

 rice to mules, and Part I of Bulletin 124 on hogs. The patho- 

 logical work conducted by Dr. Paulsen was interrupted by his 

 resignation in October. Up to that time he had continued his 

 investigations in the hyperimmunization of sheep against an- 

 thrax, and in securing data on the conditions that minimize 

 the influence of the protective effect of anthrax vaccine. It is 



