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chemical analyses of soils, variety tests, fertilizer and culture experi- 

 ments with sugar cane, and studies of the technology of sugar manu- 

 facture. 



The station has been maintained as heretofore by the Sugar Planters' 

 Association. The director, R. E. Blouin, has recently resigned to 

 return to the station at New Orleans, and has been succeeded by C. F. 

 Eckart, formerly first assistant chemist of the station. 



IDAHO. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Idaho, Moscow. 

 Department of the University of Idaho. 



GOVEKNING BOARD. 



Board of Regents: John B. Goode (Pres.), Rathdrum; Mrs. Wm. H. Ridenbaugh 

 ( V. Pres.), Boise; Geo. C. Parkinson (Sec), Preston; George W. Chapin, Idaho Falls; 

 Henry E. Wallace, Caldwell. 



STATION STAFF. 



J. A. McLean, Ph. D., President of the University and Director. 

 Louis F. Henderson, Ph. B., Bot. Chas. A. Peters, B. S., Ph. D., Chem. 



John M. Aldrich, M. S., Ent. Chas. N. Little, M. A., Ph. D., Irrig. 



John E. Bonebright, M. A., Met. Engin. 



Fred A. Huntley, B. S. A., Hort. Hal. T. Beans, M. S., Asst. Chem. 



Hiram T. French, M. 8., Agr. Herbert T. Condon, Clerk. 



William L. Payne, Treas. 



LINES OF WORK. 



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

 feeding experiments with steers and lambs; experiments with tame 

 grasses to determine their value for pasturage, and with clover and a 

 number of grasses for hay; tests of the yield and growth of barley, 

 corn, macaroni wheats, soy beans, broom-corn millet, spelt, and Rus- 

 sian grains; botanical work, including studies of mushrooms and the 

 fungus diseases of the grape, peach, and pear, and experiments with 

 different spray ing materials; chemical investigation of insecticides and 

 fungicides; analysis of soils, feeding stuffs, prunes, ores, and miscel- 

 laneous articles; study of the nitrogen content of wheat; sugar-beet 

 investigations; studies of the San Jose scale, elm louse, pear-leaf blis- 

 ter mite, grasshoppers, and other insects; spraying experiments with 

 insecticides; horticultural investigations, including experiments in the 

 cultivation and pruning of fruit trees, the use of barnyard manure in 

 the production of root crops, experiments in growing garden vege- 

 tables with and without irrigation, and experiments in root pruning 

 to hasten the ripening of beans; meteorological observations. 



The feeding experiments have been conducted with a view to 

 encouraging animal production in a region where continuous wheat 

 raising has been practiced almost exclusively. Already considerable 



