90 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



STATION STAFF. 



Andrew S. Draper, LL. D., President of the University. 



Eugene Davenport, M. Agr., Dir. W. H. Knox, M. 8., Chief Asst. in Soil 

 T. J. Burrill, Ph. D., Bot. Phys. 



S. A. Forbes, Ph. D., Ent. C. F. Hottes, Ph. D., Asst. in Bot. 



D. Mcintosh, V. S., Vet. J. H. Skinner, B. S., Asst. in Animal 

 C. G. Hopkins, Ph. D., Agron. and Chem. Husb. 



J. C. Blair, Tlort. A. V. Stubenrauch, B. S., M. S. A., Asst. 

 H. W. Mumford, B. S., Animal Husb. in Hort. 



W. J. Fraser, B. S., Dairying. H. Hasselbring, B. S., Asst. in Veg. Path. 



G. P. Clinton, M. S., Bot, J. H. Petitt, Ph. B., Asst. in Chem. 



A. D. Shamel, B. S., Farm Crops. E. M. East, B. S., Asst. in Chem. 



L. H. Smith, B. S., Chem. C. P. Bull, B. Agr., Asst. in Farm Crops. 



J. W. Lloyd, B. S. A., Hort. R. S. Woodrow, Field Asst. in Sugar Beet 

 H. E. Ward, M. S., Chief Asst. in Soil Bad. Investigations. 



A. J. Glover, B. Agr., Chief Asst. in Dairy Kate Mclntyre, Sec. 



Husb. F. H. Rankin, Institute Visitor. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Illinois Station during the past year, as heretofore, 

 has included investigations in agronomy, horticulture, chemistry, bot- 

 any, entomology, and animal industry and dairying. The work in 

 agronomy has included rotation and fertilizer experiments to study the 

 needs of the soils, soil inoculation experiments, experiments in select- 

 ing corn to improve the protein and fat, and sugar-beet investigations. 

 In horticulture the principal work has been with the apple, and has 

 included the cultivation of ^orchards, spraying, tests of spraying 

 machineiy, experiments with new insecticides and fungicides, pruning 

 work at the station and in private orchards, renovation experiments in 

 an old orchard near the station, and the use of commercial fertilizers 

 and cover crops in the orchard. There have also been experiments 

 with pears and garden vegetables, cold-storage investigations, and 

 studies of the causes that determine quality in muskmelons. The 

 chemist has cooperated with the other departments in studies on corn 

 and muskmelons. The botanist has studied the bitter rot of apples, 

 pear blight, and other diseases of fruits. The entomologist is studying 

 particularly the insects that cause damage to the appearance of fruits 

 and those injuring shade trees. In the latter work he has a man 

 engaged in the parks of Chicago. Work in dairying has been con- 

 tinued along the same lines as formerly, but plans are being made for 

 enlarging this and other work in animal husbandry. 



The State legislature of 1900-1901 made liberal appropriations for the 

 college of agriculture and the experiment station, increasing the funds 

 available for agricultural education and research by $60,000 annually, 

 besides making a special appropriation of $10,000 for equipping the 

 new agricultural building. Of the former sum the college of agri- 

 culture received $8,000 for the purchase of live stock and $6,000 



