THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS IN THE SEVERAL 

 STATES AND TERRITORIES. 



ALABAMA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 



Auburn. 



Department of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Trustees — Committee on Experiment Stations: Thomas Williams, Presi- 

 dent, Wetumpka; Jonathan Haralson, Selma. 



STATION STAFF. 



, President of the College and of the Station Council. 



P. H. Mell, M. E., Ph. D., Dir.; Bot. C. L. Hare, M. S., 1st Asst. Chem. 



B. B. Ross, M. S., Chem. Thomas Bragg, B. S., 2d Asst. Chem. 



C. A. Cary, B. S., D. V. M., Vet. J. C. Phelps, B. S., 3d Asst. Chem. 

 J. F. Duggar, M. S., Agr. T. U. Culver, Supt. Farm. 



E. M. Wilcox, Ph. D., Biol. R. W. Clark, Asst. in Agr. 



J. T. Anderson, Ph. D., Assoc. Chem. C. F. Austin, Asst. Hort. 



G. F. Freeman, Sec. 



LINES OF WORK. 



Work at the Alabama Station during the past year has been con- 

 tinued along lines of economical soil improvement, including experi- 

 ments with commercial fertilizers, stable manure, and green manuring 

 crops for the purpose of studying their respective values in raising 

 cotton, corn, oats, and wheat; animal production and dairying with 

 closely associated studies of animal diseases and experiments with 

 silage and forage crops, especially sorghum, cowpeas, rye, vetch, and 

 native grasses; and plant production, including, besides the experi- 

 ments with field crops mentioned above, experiments with vegetables 

 and orchard and small fruits, studies of plant diseases, irrigation 

 experiments with garden vegetables, and experiments in cooperation 

 with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department on hybrid 

 oranges and tea plants. The agricultural and chemical departments 

 have continued to cooperate in the studj^ of the fixation of atmospheric 

 nitrogen by legumes. The station is cooperating with the Bureau of 

 Chemistry of this Department in studies on methods of potash analysis. 



Most of the station work has been in progress several years and 

 will be continued. The work of the agricultural department in ani- 

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