

COLLEGE OFilAGR^CULTU^T 



REPORT OF THE GUAM AGRICULTURAL EXPERT ' 



MENT STATION, 1915. 



REPORT OF THE AGRONOMIST IN CHARGE. 

 By A. C. Hartenboweb. 



INTRODUCTION. 



During the past fiscal year the equipment in small buildings, water 

 system, live stock, pastures, feeds, machinery, plants, seeds, etc., was 

 extended so as to enable the station to undertake more detailed ex- 

 perimental work and to be of consequently broader usefulness to the 

 native ranchers of Guam. 



It was realized at the beginning of the year that the equipment 

 was not sufficient in amount to permit the carrying out of such experi- 

 mental work in agronomy, animal husbandry, horticulture, and 

 veterinary medicine as seemed desirable. Necessarily, therefore, the 

 greater portion of the time of those connected with the station has 

 been occupied not only in carrying on the experimental work already 

 in progress, but also in arranging details for starting the new experi- 

 ments planned. Until near the end of the fiscal year, no new experi- 

 ments were started, except with corn, cotton, hog feeding, and disease 

 investigations. 



NEW EXPERIMENTS UNDERTAKEN. 



The following projects were approved and experiments were 

 started on them during the year, or the equipment arranged for start- 

 ing them about July 1, 1915 : 



AgroThomy. — Cotton : Variety tests, cultural methods, and improve- 

 ment. Corn : Variety tests and improvement. Rice : Variety and fer- 

 tilizer tests. Alfalfa : Soil and inoculation tests. Cowpeas and soy 

 beans: Variety and inoculation tests; value for hog pastures. Para 

 grass : Studies of production and fertilizer tests. 



Horticulture. — Vegetables: Variety and fertilizer tests; loss of 

 vitality of seeds under Guam conditions; effect of Guam conditions 

 in the degeneration of vegetables. Lemons and oranges: Improve- 

 ment by asexual methods. Coconuts: Variety and fertilizer tests; 

 cultivation ; gi"owth in combination with different pasture grasses. 

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