Station No. 1, Sugar Experiment Station, 

 Audubon Park, New Orleans. 



Mr. H. P. A gee, Assistant Director, has had immediate 

 charge of the work again during the past year and has dis- 

 charged his duties faithfully. 



FIELD EXPERIMENTS. 



The field experiments have been very largely a continuation 

 of those previously reported, most of them requiring a long 

 series of results before conclusions can be drawn. The more 

 important phases of the work are briefly discussed under appro- 

 priate headings. 



Sugar cane seedlings. 



We have continued the work of securing seedling canes of 

 our own germination and also have imported seedlings that 

 have been secured in tropical countries. The large number of 

 seedlings secured by us in 1909 have been tried in the field 

 and normal crops have been secured, in which polarization 

 tests could be made of the sugar content. From the many 

 hundreds few have been selected that present desirable char- 

 acters for the field and also show up well in the laboratory. 

 Several years of seedling propagation at the Station have clearly 

 demonstrated that the characteristics of seedlings do not become 

 firmly established until they have been propagated a number of 

 years. Therefore, the work with many hundred canes entails a 

 great deal of laboratory analyses, field notes, and extensive rec- 

 ords. However, we have a number of canes that show an unu- 

 sually high sucrose content for Louisiana and we feel very much 

 encouraged from the outlook of this work. 



Importation of foreign varieties. 



During the past year we have imported new varieties of 

 cane from foreign countries, taking all precautions to avoid the 

 possibility of the introduction of foreign insects or fungus 

 diseases of the sugar cane. So that we now have a very large 

 collection of varieties of cane under observation. 



