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MICHIGAN. 



Experiment Station of Michigan Agricultural College, Agricultural College.* 

 Department of Michigan Agricultural College. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



State Board of Agriculture: T. F. Marston (Pres.), Bay City; Franklin Wells, Con- 

 stantine; Chas. J. Monroe, South Haven; Gov. Aaron T. Bliss, Lansing; Jonathan L. 

 Snyder (Pres. of College) , Agricultural College; E. P. Allen, Ypsilanti; H. F. Marsh, 

 Allegan; L. W. Watkins, Manchester. 



STATION STAFF. 



Jonathan L. Snyder, M. A., Ph. D., President of the College. 

 Clinton D. Smith, M. S., Dir. R. H. Pettit, B. S. A., Enl. 



J. D. Towar, B. S., Agr. Chas. F. Wheeler, B. S., Consulting Bot. 



Robert C. Kedzie, LL. D., Chem. Mrs. L. E. Landon, Libr. 



L. R. Taft, M. S., Hort. C. E. Marshall, Ph. B., Bact. 



M. L. Dean, Asst. Hort. T. A. Farrand, In Charge of Substa. (South 



F. W. Robison, B. S., Asst. Chem. Haven). 



George A. Waterman, D. V. M., Consult- Leo. M. Geismar, In Charge of Substa. 

 ing Vet. (Chatham). 



Louzena D. Kellum, Clerk and Sten. 



LINES OF WORK. 



During the past year much of the work at the Michigan Station has 

 been along lines taken up in previous years. These have included 

 variety, cultural, fertilizer, and seasonal experiments with sugar beets; 

 experiments with sand lucern, cowpeas, and other legumes for hay; 

 rotation experiments begun in 1895; experiments at the station and 

 on farms in different parts of the State with corn, oats, beets, and 

 other crops grown on muck with different commercial fertilizers, 

 stable manure, lime, ashes, etc. ; variety tests of strawberries, fruits, 

 and potatoes; spraying experiments with apples and other orchard 

 fruits; fertilizer experiments with greenhouse crops; fertilizer inspec- 

 tion; seed testing; analysis of sugar beets and flours; study of new 

 methods of judging wheats and flours; study of problems related to 

 pure milk supply; entomological investigations, especially with scale 

 insects and with wax to protect trees against peach borer; and forestry 

 experiments. 



Among new lines of work taken up may be mentioned experiments 

 with tobacco, which is now becoming an important crop in the State; 

 experiments in the utilization of sugar-beet pulp as a feeding stuff; 

 feeding experiments with Western lambs v. Michigan lambs, study- 

 ing incidentally liability to internal parasites; the growing of corn 

 with cowpeas, soy beans, and other legumes for silage mixtures; ex- 

 periments with varieties of wheats, hops, soy beans and miscellaneous 



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