52 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



and pruning, cultivation, marketing, and insects and diseases, with 

 brief descriptive notes on 94 varieties of grapes grown at the station. 



Bulletin 111, pp. 6*2, jig. l. — Corn Culture. — Details and results 

 of variety, fertilizer, seed, and culture experiments with corn carried 

 on at the station during several seasons, are presented in tables and 

 discussed. 



Bulletin 112, pp. 36. — Orchard Notes. — Notes and tabulated data 

 are given on the behavior of apples, figs, kaki or Japanese persimmons, 

 hybrid oranges, peaches, pears, and plums grown at the station dur- 

 ing the season. Mention is also made of experiments in spraying 

 trees with kerosene oil and with crude petroleum for controlling the 

 San Jose scale. 



Bulletin 113, pp. 52. — Cooperative Experiments with Cotton in 1899- 

 1900. — Data for 37 cooperative soil tests made in 1899 and 1900 in dif- 

 ferent localities of the State, of which 23 gave definite results, are pre- 

 sented in tables and discussed. 



Index to Volume 8, pp. 15. — An index to Bulletins 108-112 and the 

 Annual Report for 1900. 



Annual Report, 1900, pp. 20. — A financial statement for the fiscal 

 year ended June 30, 1900, and reports of the director and heads of 

 departments reviewing the different lines of station work. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The work of the Alabama Station is planned with full recognition 

 of the fact that the problem o^ foremost importance in that State is 

 the restoration and maintenance of soil fertility. All other problems 

 taken up are either subsidiary to this or are concerned with the develop- 

 ment of diversified agriculture, which must be introduced in order to 

 avoid a repetition of the fertility-exhausting practice of growing cotton 

 year after year on the same land. Cotton is still the important crop 

 of the State, and work in testing, classifying, and improving varieties 

 and in determining its fertilizer requirements is being done, but at the 

 same time other lines of agricultural production, such as dairying, 

 beef and pork production, fruit growing, and vegetable gardening, are 

 being developed. Among the results of the year may be mentioned 

 the successful production of cabbage, cauliflower, and other vegeta- 

 bles under irrigation, and the discovery of means for avoiding the 

 bitter taste imparted to cream by cows that have eaten bitterweed 

 (Helenium tenuifolium). The experiments with varieties of grapes 

 have shown that the Herbemont and the Rulander are resistant to root 

 diseases. During the year twenty-two farmers' institutes were held 

 under the direction of the veterinarian, who was aided by five other 

 members of the college and station staff. The institutes were better 

 attended than those held last year and were supported by an appropria- 

 tion of $500 from the fertilizer tax. 



