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Avhen following oats the past year when fed to hogs gave as 

 large a return per acre in pounds of pork as could have been 

 secured from feeding seventy-five bushels of corn. Bulletins 

 have been published during the year giving the results in detail. 



Fiber crops. 



In 1909 we planted a much larger area of ramie than wc 

 had previously cultivated, because we had a number of appli- 

 cations for material on which to test machines for decorticating 

 the fiber. Again these machines have failed to meet expectations 

 and we have plowed up the greater portion of our ramie plots^ 

 though we shall not abandon the hope that some one will invent 

 a machine that will successfully prepare the ramie plant for the 

 market. 



Forage crops. 



The results of the past year have emphasized the desira- 

 bility of greatly extending forage crop production in the state, 

 and especially have the results of the past year verified the 

 possibilities of the production of pork on forage crops at very 

 small cost. The rather large list of forage crops that will grow 

 in the winter time should give us a decided advantage in the 

 production of hogs, cattle and sheep over the more northern 

 latitudes where nothing is grown during the winter time. 



DAIRY FARM. 



A farm of eighty-seven acres .southeast of Baton Rouge, be- 

 longing to the Agricultural College, which had been leased out 

 for a number of years, has been transformed during the past 

 year into a dairy farm, to be operated in conjunction with the 

 dairy on the University grounds. The land had been very poorly 

 cared for and was in very bad condition, but it is rapidly being 

 transformed into a productive field and will be gradually devel- 

 oped into a demonstration dairy farm under the direction of 

 the officers of the Experiment Station. 



EXPERIMENT STATION DAIRY. 



The Dairy has been under the immediate charge of Mr. C. H. 

 Staples, a senior student of the College of Agriculture. The 

 Dairy has been enlarged by the addition of several very valua- 



