106 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



STATION STAFF. 



T. D. Boyd, President of the College {Baton Rouge). 



Sugar Experiment Station, Audubon Park, New Orleans. 



Wm. C. Stubbs, M. A. , Ph. D. , Dir. G. W. Agee, B. S. , Asst. Chem. 



R. E. Blouin, M. S., Asst. Dir. Chem. George Chiquelin, Sugar Maker. 



P. L. Hutchinson, B. S., Cliem. W." D. Clayton, M. S., Farm Manager. 



Robert Glenk, B. S., Chem. G. D. Harris, M. S., M. A., Geol. 



S. Baura, B. S., Asst. Chem. Jas. K. McHugh, Sec. and Sten. 



T. D. Boyd, jr., B. S., Asst. Chem. 



State Experiment Station, Baton Rouge. 



Wm. C. Stubbs, M. A., Ph. D., Dir. W. H. Dalrymple, M. R. C. V. S., Vet. 



W. R. Dodson, B. A. , S. B. , Asst. Dir. F. H. Burnette, Hort. 



H. A. Morgan, B. S. A., Ent. B. H. Atkinson, Farm Manager. 



North Louisiana Experiment Station, Calhoun. 



Wm. C. Stubbs, M. A., Ph. D., Dir. J. F. Harp, B. S., Chem. 



D. N. Barrow, B. S., Asst. Dir. W. R. Goyne, Farm Manager. 



Maurice Bird, B. S., Chem. Eugene J. Watson, Hort. 



A. T. Anders, Dairyman and Poultryman. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the three Louisiana stations during the past year has 

 been along the same general lines as heretofore, some of the principal 

 subjects of investigation being as follows: 



Sugar Station. — Sugar cane has received most attention at this 

 station. Experiments to determine the manurial requirements of this 

 plant, which have been in progress for eleven years, have been con- 

 tinued; also experiments in methods of cultivation, selection, and 

 testing new varieties. In the sugar house have been conducted exten- 

 sive experiments in clarifying, filtering, evaporating, and cooking, 

 and a series of systematic investigations with artificial mixtures of 

 sugar and other substances to determine the restraining influence of 

 these added substances on the crystallization of sugar. The station is 

 also experimenting with alfalfa, clover, grasses, and other forage 

 crops, varieties of corn, cotton, hybrid orange trees, and tea plants. 

 The inspection of fertilizers and Paris green has been continued as 

 heretofore. 



State Station. — Work here has included fertilizer experiments with 

 corn and cotton, rotation experiments to discover a method of restor- 

 ing the soils of the bluff regions, and investigations with forage crops. 

 Tobacco experiments, as reported last year, have been continued. 

 The veterinarian has demonstrated the usefulness of inoculation for 

 Texas fever in Louisiana and is now studying diseases of sheep. The 

 botanist and bacteriologist has been studying diseases of plants and a 

 process of sterilizing sirups and molasses. There are also feeding 



