12 GUAM AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



The station is fortunate in obtaining Mr. Barbour for foreman 

 of the Cotot farm. His training at the station for some three years 

 served to give him a good idea of the methods of handling live stock, 

 and he should obtain satisfactory results from experimental work 

 at Cotot during the coming year. The major portion of the station's 

 study of the effect of ticks upon native cattle, as well as orchard and 

 vegetable experiments, will be carried on there. 



It is planned to use Cotot not only as a place for the surplus live 

 stock of this station but also as a situation for testing, under such 

 conditions as any native may have, methods of handling live stock 

 and growing crops. This will be in addition to the experimental 

 work conducted. 



From the standpoint of soil, the new farm offers advantages over 

 the home station, where the heavy soils and poor drainage make 

 the production of citrus fruits extremely difficult. At Cotot there 

 are lighter soils, and it seems a fair conclusion that citrus fruits 

 will do well. Cotot will also furnish soil types for testing trees, 

 field crops, etc. , 



HORTICULTURAL WORK. 



In the horticultural experiments, work on methods of mango propa- 

 gation and vegetable growing has been continued without any further 

 important data being noted. As has been stated in former reports 

 of this station, these two experiments have been conducted more as 

 demonstrations to the natives than for the experimental data obtained. 

 However, this work will be placed more upon an experimental basis 

 in the hope of establishing several points that need investigation. 



In the shading experiment conducted for the purpose of reducing, 

 if possible, the pungency of peppers during the dry season, the results 

 of the past season's work go to show that the shading has little, if 

 any, effect upon the pungency. This experiment, however, gave 

 ^aluable information as to the effect of shading in increasing the 

 yield and improving the quality of peppers. For this reason, during 

 the next dry season not only will the work with peppers be continued, 

 but the effect of shading on other vegetable crops will also be studied. 



The past wet season brought out strongly the fact that the heavy 

 soil and consequent poor drainage of the regular garden plats made 

 it possible to grow but few vegetables during the months of August, 

 September, October, and a part of November. Therefore, about 

 June 1 of this vear, a new wet-weather garden was cleared and pre- 

 pared for planting. The past dry season held so long that the new 

 garden had not been planted at the end of the fiscal year. The 

 comparative yields of the sidehill garden and the present lowland 

 garden should give valuable data for Guam vegetable growers. 



