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MONTANA. 



Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, Bozeman. 

 Department of Montana Agricultural College. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Executive Board: Walter S. Hartman (Pres.), Bozeman; Peter Koch (Sec. and 

 Treas.), Bozeman; John M. Robinson, Bozeman; Joseph Kountz, Bozeman; E. B. 

 Lam me, Bozeman. 



STATION STAFF. 



Rev. James Reid, B. A., President of the College. 

 S. Fortier, M. E., Dir.; Irrig. Engin. Edmund Burk, Asst. Chem. 



F. W. Traphagen, Ph. D., Chem. J. W. Blankinship, Ph. D., Bot. . 



Robert S. Shaw, B. S. A., Agr. Robert A. Cooley, B. S., Zool. 



Henry C. Gardner, Asst. Agr. E. J. S. Moore, Asst. Ent. 



M. A. Lamme, Sten. and Clerk. 



LINES OF WORK. 



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

 continued along the same lines as formerly, and has included irrigation 

 investigations; the introduction and testing of improved varieties of 

 cereals, root crops, and forage plants; rotation experiments; feeding 

 experiments with steers and lambs in carload lots for shipment; chem- 

 ical investigation of sugar beets, alkali soils, alkali limit of plant 

 growth, irrigation and alkali waters, soils, etc. ; entomological work; 

 botanical study of weeds, poisonous plants, ornamentals, forage plants, 

 and parasitic fungi; poultry work; and horticultural work, especially 

 the introduction of varieties suited to the climate of the State. The 

 irrigation investigations included experiments with different crops, 

 experiments in pots to determine the effect on plant growth of tailings 

 water and tailings sediment from mines, and work in cooperation with 

 this Office in the Bitterroot Valley and on the Yellowstone. The 

 station is also cooperating with farmers in testing new varieties and in 

 sugar-beet work, with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Depart- 

 ment in the study of plants poisonous to stock, and with the Bureau 

 of Forestry in tree planting. 



The station has been very successful in growing clover and is exer- 

 cising a most noticeable influence on the farmers in the direction of 

 doing away with summer fallowing and growing clover instead. The 

 station supervises the hydrographic work of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey in Montana and makes all measurements of streams in the 

 State. It is now the only irrigation bureau in the State and the irri- 

 gators depend upon it for information. The station is planning to 

 buy a herd of dairy cows and has been given $2,500 by the State legis- 

 lature for the erection of a dairy building, the equipment for which 

 is partly on hand. The legislature has also given $2,000 a year for 

 the support of farmers' institutes, which will be in charge of a board, 

 of which the director of the station is secretary. 



