Station No. 2, State Station, 

 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. 



The office of the Director is maintained on the campus of 

 the Louisiana State University. All bulletins are issued from 

 this Station and the laboratory for the analysis of fertilizers, 

 feed stuffs and Paris green for the State Board of Agriculture 

 and Immigration is also located here. The work of the several 

 different departments is herein briefly summarized. 



FARM DEPARTMENT. 



On the first of February, 1910, Mr. S. E. McClendon, who 

 had acted as Assistant Director for a number of years, was 

 transferred to the North Louisiana Experiment Station at Cal- 

 houn, and the Director took up his residence on the Experiment 

 Station Farm. The work of the Assistant Director has been 

 assigned to other parties. 



Field work. 



The field work, covering experiments in the use of fertili- 

 zers, rotation crops, forage crops, fiber crops, miscellaneous and 

 medicinal plants, has been continued along lines outlined in 

 previous reports. 



Corn. 



In addition to conducting experiments previously outlined on 

 corn we took up a study of the influence of suckering corn stalks 

 and the "ear to the row" tests of seed and the selection and im- 

 provement of certain strains of seed corn. This work will also 

 be continued for a number of years before any conclusions are 

 announced. 



Root crops. 

 The utilization of root crops was considerably enlarged and 

 extended during the past year with very excellent results in 

 feeding stock beets to dairy cattle and to hogs and in the utili- 

 zation of rutabagas and sweet potatoes for fattening swine. Very 

 large yields of stock beets and sweet potatoes have been secured, 



