16 a EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Crop and Crop Management Studies. 



Plant Ixtkoductiox. 

 Cranberry Station. 



Project 5. "Blueberry investigations." 



Professor Fraxklix. 



This project was commenced in 1915, and is co-operative 

 with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. About half an acre of sandy soil, 

 underlain with considerable peat, is now planted to this crop. 

 The work includes a test of selected versus unselected bushes, 

 as transplanted from adjacent woodlands and swamps; trial 

 of new varieties as produced through the efforts of ]\Ir. 

 Frederick Coville of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture; propagation work; and observation on disease and insect 

 control. 



Department of Pomology. 



Project 17. "A study of the cultivation of the high bush 

 cranberry." 



Professor Shaw. 



Two hundred plants of Viburnum were received in the spring 

 of 1921 from the United States Department of Agriculture 

 and set out on the Tuxbury land. These plants are in part 

 seedlings, and in part propagated from cuttings from superior 

 plants. 



Stkaix and Variety Tests. 



Dc/jartment of Agriculture. 



Project 5. "Test of meadow fescue versus timothy under 

 varying drainage conditions." 



Assistant Professor Gaskill and Mr. Coffin. 



Work on this project was started in the summer of 1921, 

 with two fairly well-defined moisture conditions in the field,, 

 and plots repeated in quadruplicate. 



