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colts have been quite successful, and show that fine horses can be devel- 

 oped if good stock be used. Several teams of these horses have been 

 used for station work (PL I, fig. 2) and one team for driving. The 

 experiments with dairy cows of five different breeds have been brought 

 to a close and the results prepared for publication. Along the line of 

 field crops the station is having good success in growing winter wheat, 

 and is encouraging its production by farmers. Good results also 

 have been obtained from cutting back oats and winter wheat to prevent 

 lodging. Oats have been found a good nurse crop for clover, and 

 farmers are using it as such upon the advice of the station. The 

 farmers of the State are manifesting a deep interest in the work of the 

 station and are quite generally applying its teachings in their practice. 

 Each summer a farmers' picnic, which attracts farmers from all over 

 the State, is held at the college and station, and this occasion is taken 

 to post the farmers on the work of the college and station. 



KANSAS. 



Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan. 



Department of Kansas State Agricultural College. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Regents: J. S. McDowell {Pres.), Smith Center; F. D. Coburn ( V. Pres.), 

 Kansas City; E. T. Fairchild (Treas.), Ellsworth; William Hunter (Loan Commis- 

 sioner), Blue Rapids; J. M. Satterthwaite, Douglass; S. J. Stewart, Humboldt; E. R. 

 Nichols (Sec), Manhattan. 



STATION STAFF. 



E. R. Nichols, M. A., President of College and Chairman of Station Council. 



J. T. Willard, M. S., Dir.; Chem. F. C. Weber, B. S., Asst. Chem. 



H. F. Roberts, M. S., Bot. Albert Dickens, M. S., Acting Hort. 



H. M. Cottrell, M. S., Agr. V. M. Shoesmith, B. S., Asst. in Feeding 



E. A. Popenoe, M. A., Ent. and Field Work. 



N. S. Mayo, M. S., D. V. M., Vet. A. T. Kinsley, M. S., Asst. in Vet. Dept. 



Lorena E. Clemons, B. S., Sec. J. B. Norton, Asst. Ent. 



D. H. Otis, M. S., Dairy Husb. G. O. Greene, B. S., Asst. Hort. 



Alice M. Melton, Clerk. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Kansas Station during the past year has been 

 largely a continuation of work reported last year, and has included 

 experiments in the production of "baby beef" — that is, preparation of 

 animals for slaughter at about one year of age; calf raising by vari- 

 ous modifications of their feed; feeding a scrub herd of dairy cows 

 especially for a comparison of various kinds of leguminous forage; 

 tests of two prominent condimental feeds as to their effect in the pro- 

 duction of beef and milk; experiments in the improvement of black- 

 leg vaccine; tests of the efficacy of "Detmer's virus" in protective 

 inoculation against swine plague; studies of the tetanus bacillus as to 



