122 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



ing notes on culture and variety tests with different field crops, fruits, 

 and vegetables; notes on the geology of the locality; lists of the plants, 

 insects, spiders, and molluscs found at the substation; and a brief dis- 

 cussion of the characteristics of the soil of the Upper Peninsula. 



Bulletin 187, pp>. 1^8. — Report of South Haven Substation. — Results 

 of tests of 61 varieties of raspberries, 29 blackberries, 28 currants, 

 20 gooseberries, 61 cherries, 113 peaches, 47 pears, 9 quinces, 47 

 plums, 81 grapes, 105 apples, 11 crab apples, and a number of varie- 

 ties of European and Japanese chestnuts, filberts, and walnuts, with 

 descriptive notes on many of the more important or newer varieties; 

 and brief accounts of experiments in pruning back peach trees which 

 had been injured by frost, experiments in thinning peaches, and spray- 

 ing experiments. 



Bulletin 188, pp. 11^, fig. 1. — Experiments with Sugar Beets. — Tests 

 of various kinds of soil for sugar beets, an experiment on the time of 

 planting sugar beets, and distance, fertilizer, and variety tests con- 

 ducted in 1900, on soils ranging from sand to loam. 



Annual Report, 1900, pp. 4.78, pis. 4, Jigs. 62, map 1. — Reports of 

 the director and heads of departments reviewing the work of the station 

 during the year, a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1900, meteorological observations, and reprints of Bulletins 175- 

 185 of the station. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Michigan Station is doing much to introduce new industries and 

 new crops. As a result of preliminary investigations and experiments 

 made by the station chemist, demonstrating the adaptability of Michi- 

 gan soil to sugar-beet production, the State now contains 13 sugar 

 factories, representing a total capitalization of $5,525,000. Six more 

 companies are organized and will invest fully $2,000,000 in buildings 

 for which contracts have been awarded. In this connection the station 

 is now making somewhat extended investigations in the utilization of 

 sugar factory by-products as feeding stuffs. Sand lucern has been 

 introduced by the station, and its use as a hay crop and a green manure 

 on light sandy soil has met with a success worthy of mention. The 

 station has been instrumental, also, in the quite general introduction 

 of cowpeas and soy beans on farms in the southern part of the State, 

 and is investigating the use of these legumes with corn for silage mix- 

 tures. Tobacco is another recently introduced crop that is receiving 

 attention at the station. In the rejuvenation of old orchards, fruit 

 growers are working hand in hand with the station, and the results in 

 some cases have been remarkable. The experiment in growing white 

 pine at the college and on the plantation, about a mile away (PI. Ill, 

 figs. 1 and 2), is progressing well. The South Haven substation fur- 

 nishes desired information to the fruit growers along the west coast 



