136 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



NEBRASKA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska, Lincoln. 

 Department of the University of Nebraska. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Regents of the University: E. von Forell (Pres.), Kearney; Geo. F. Kenower, Win- 

 ner; Edson C. Rich, Omaha; John L. Teeters, Lincoln; Elisha C. Calkins, Kearney; 

 Carl J. Ernest, Lincoln. 



STATION STAFF. 



E. Benjamin Andrews, LL. D. , Chancellor of the University. 

 E. A. Burnett, B. S., Dir.; Animal Hush. A. T. Wiancko, B. S. A., Asst. Agr. 



T. L. Lyon, B. S. A., Assoc. Dir.; Agr. R. A. Emerson, B. S., Hort. 



H. H. Nicholson, M. A., Chem. A. L. Haecker, B. S., Dairy Hush. 



C. E. Bessey, Ph. D., Bot. Henry B. Slade, B. A., Asst. Chem. 



Lawrence Bruner, B. S., Ent. J. H. Gain, M. D. C, Asst. in Animal Path. 



E. H. Barbour, Ph. D., Geol. H. R. Smith, B. S., Asst. Animal Husb. 



A. T. Peters, D. V. M., Animal Path. S. W. Perin, Foreman of Farm. 



G. D. Swezey, M. A., Met. J. S. Dales, M. Ph., Financial Sec. 



0. V. P. Stout, C. E., Irrig. Engin. W. W. Marshall, Executive Clerk. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Nebraska Station during the past year has included 

 investigations in chemistry, botany, soils, horticulture, forestry, stock 

 feeding, field crops, animal diseases, entomology, and irrigation. The 

 horticulturist is making a comparative test of irrigation, no irrigation, 

 and mulching with fruits and Vegetables; developing fruits, vegeta- 

 bles, and ornamentals that will withstand dry summers and cold win- 

 ters; and conducting orchard experiments with different methods of 

 culture with and without cover crops. In animal husbandry special 

 attention is being given to the feeding of cattle, sheep, and pigs, and 

 to testing the different forage plants for soiling and pasture in connec- 

 tion with dairy cows. The pathological investigations include work 

 with the cornstalk disease, sorghum poisoning, hog cholera, and black- 

 leg. The work in agronomy includes studies of methods for conserving 

 soil moisture; the production of forage crops adapted to regions of 

 limited rainfall; the improvement of winter wheat, corn, oats, and 

 sugar beets; and the maintenance of soil fertility by the use of 

 manures, leguminous crops, and rotations. The chemist has devised a 

 rapid method for the determination of sugar in beets, and a mechanical 

 device for collecting precipitates. 



The station is cooperating with this Office in irrigation investiga- 

 tions; with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department in the 

 cultivation and improvement of native grasses and in an investigation 

 of the influence of environment on plants; with the Division of Ento- 

 mology in the study of means for destroying locusts and grasshoppers, 

 including the use of the grasshopper fungus disease; and with the 



