CONTENTS 



Page. 



Report of the agronomist in charge 7 



Introduction 7 



New experiments undertaken 7 



Proposed experiments 8 



Improvements and repairs 8 



The Cotot stock farm 11 



Horticultural work 12 



Seed and plant introduction 13 



Seed and plant distribution 14 



Livo-stock work 15 



Farm-crops work 16 



Corn experiments 16 



Cotton experiments 18 



Forage-crop studies 19 



Para grass (Panicum moUe) 19 



Feterita and kafir - 20 



Cowpeas and soy beans - -,- - - 20 



Soil tests with Paspalum dilatatum 21 



Pasture crops for hogs 22 



Acknowledgment 23 



Report of the animal husbandman and veterinarian 23 



Breeding experiments 23 



Pig-feeding experiment 24 



Live stock disease investigations 25 



Cattle diseases 25 



Tick fever 25 



Liver flukes (Fasciola hepa(ica) 30 



Stomach worms of cattle 33 



Diseases of swine 33 



The common lard worm 33 



Lungworms 33 



Diseases of poultry 34 



White diarrhea 34 



Chicken pox or sorehead 35 



Cholera 36 



Diphtheritic roup 36 



Internal parasites of poultry 38 



Tapeworms, common roundworms, and ceca worms 38 



Stomach worms 39 



The eye worm 40 



External parasites of poultry 41 



Apicultural notes 41 



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