EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



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WINDOM EXPERIMENT STATION. 



DEWAIX COOK, SUPT. 



This Station is situated in southwestern Minnesota, in Cottonwood 

 countj^ fortj^ miles north of the Iowa state line and sixty miles east 

 of the South Dakota state line, on the open prairie, 1,500 feet above 

 sea level. 



The soil is what may be called coal-black prairie, with more or 

 less alkali, and is very retentive of moisture; the subsoil is yellow 

 clay for many feet. There is also considerable limestone in the soil. 

 The station is located on rather low land coinpared with the sur- 

 rounding- land; there are barelj^ depressions enough in the vicinity 

 to afiford good air drainage. Still we are not specially subject to late 

 spring or early fall frosts. 



It usually freezes three or four degrees more in the valley of the 

 Des Moines river, which is five or six miles away, than it does here. 



We have no difficulty in getting all the stock that we care for to 

 experiment with, but we do have difficulty in g-etting- what we can 

 depend upon as being- true to name, and this one fact decreases the 

 value of a report to some extent. 



