60 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



ARKANSAS. 



Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Fayetteville. 

 Department of Arkansas Industrial University. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Control— Agricultural Committee: Henry Stroup (Pres.), Paris; W. H. 

 Langford, Pine Bluff; V. Y. Coob», Elmo; J. L. Buchanan (Pres. University), Fayette- 

 ville; R. L. Bennett, Fayetteville. 



• STATION STAFF. 



J. L. Buchanan, LL. D., President of the University. 

 R. L. Bennett, M. S., Dir. Ernest Walker, B. S. Agr., Hort. and Ent. 



R. R. Dinwiddie, M. D., Path, and Bact. J. F. Moore, B. S., Asst. Climi. 

 C. L. Newman, B. S., Agr. G. B. Irby, B. A., Asst. Agr. at Newport. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Arkansas Station during the past year has included 

 a chemical study of fats; a study of human and bovine tuberculosis; 

 investigations of contagious swine diseases, with field and laboratory 

 tests of preventive vaccination against swine pest and swine plague; 

 experiments with trucking crops to aid and encourage that line of 

 farming; observations on insects injurious to fruits and vegetables; 

 experiments with legumes for soil improvement, and observations on 

 the effect produced on the soil as indicated by succeeding crops; experi- 

 ments in the economic production of pork and the influence of differ- 

 ent feeding stuffs on the quality of the same; tests of different South- 

 ern feeds in feeding sheep for mutton and for wool. Considerable 

 work has been done in testing various plants for hay and for pasture 

 and a report issued. A preliminary report has been issued also on the 

 pig-feeding experiments, in which the animals were grazed on soy 

 beans, peanuts, and chufas planted in alternate rows in the field. This 

 work was conducted at Newport under the direction of an assistant in 

 agriculture. 



INCOME. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as follows: 



United States appropriation $15, 000. 00 



Farm products and miscellaneous 1, 007. 28 



Total 1 6, 007. 28 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States fund 

 has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed by this 

 Department, and has been approved. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of this station received during the past fiscal year 

 were Bulletins 61-65 and the Annual Report for 1900. 



