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required of the staff. Press bulletins have been published as hereto- 

 fore, and the work of the station is becoming better known through- 

 out the State. 



KENTUCKY. 



Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington. 

 Department of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Control: Thos. Todd {Chair.), Shelbymlle; R. S. Bullock (Treas.), Lex- 

 ington; J. K. Patterson, Lexington; M. A. Scovell, (Sec.) Lexington; D. F. Frazee, Lex- 

 ington; J. B. Marcum, Jackson; J. B. Kennedy, Paris. 



STATION STAFF. 



James K. Patterson, Ph. D., President of the College. 



M. A. Scovell, M. S„ Dir.; Chem. D. W-. May, M. 8., Animal Husb. 



A. M. Peter, M. S., Chem. L. 0. Beatty, M. S., Asst. Chem. 



H. E. Curtis, M. S., Chem. George Roberts, M. S., Asst. Chem. 



H. Garman, Ent. and Bot. S. D. Averitt, M. S., Asst. Chem. 



C. W. Mathews, B. S., Hort. T. L. Richmond, B. Agr., Asst. to Ent. and 

 J. N. Harper, B. S. Agr. Bot. 



J. W. Nutter, Asst. Dairy. Miss M. L. Didlake, M. S., Asst. to Ent. 

 J. O. La Bach, M. S., Chem. and Bot. 



W. H. Scherffius, B. S., Asst. Chem. J. D. Turner, B. Ped., Sec. to Dir. 



R. M. Allen, B. A., Clerk. 



LINES OF WORK. 



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

 continued along the lines of field experiments with tobacco, hemp, 

 potatoes, cereals, etc. ; variety tests of grasses and other forage plants; 

 horticultural investigations; studies of plant diseases; entomological 

 and botanical investigations; dairying, especially studies of the varia- 

 tion of butter fat in the milk of cows; meteorological observations; 

 studies of soils, root tubercles, and methods of analysis; and inspec- 

 tion of fertilizers, foods, and nursery stock. Interesting results 

 regarding the root tubercles of soy beans have been obtained; also 

 data that will serve as a guide in determining the time to sow wheat 

 in order to avoid injury from the Hessian fly. Material for publica- 

 tion has been prepared from studies of methods of fumigating stored 

 grains, of mosquitoes occurring in Kentucky, and of hemp insects. 

 The station is cooperating with the Bureau of Chemistry of this 

 Department in experiments on the influence of environment on the 

 sugar content of muskmelons, sugar-beet investigations, and studies 

 of the gluten content of wheat. 



The new barn for conducting experiments in curing tobacco has 

 been completed and another farm purchased, which brings the area of 

 the station farm up to 200 acres. A new form of fumigating appa- 



