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NEVADA. 



Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, Reno. 

 Department of Nevada State University. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



J. N. Evans {Pres.), Reno; W. E. F. Deal, Virginia City; W. W. Booher, Elko. 



STATION STAFF. 



Joseph E. Stubbs, M. A., D. D., President of the College and Director. 

 Ransom H. McDowell, B. S., Agr. and P. Beveridge Kennedy, Bot. and Hort. 



Animal Husb. Elizabeth Spayd Stubbs, Sten. 



Nathaniel E. Wilson, M. S., Chem. Samuel B. Doten, Ent. 



Peter Fransden, B. A., Zool. and Bad. Theodore Clark, Foreman Farm. 



H. H. Dexter, B. A., Libr. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The lines of work pursued at the Nevada Station during the past 

 year included field experiments, with and without irrigation, with 

 cereals, alfalfa, and forage plants gathered from the valleys and bench 

 lands; botanical study of forage problems on sheep ranges of the 

 Sierra region and of grasses in the vicinity of Reno; entomological 

 study of an onion maggot, cutworms injurious to alfalfa, and the flat- 

 headed apple borer. In cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try of this Department the department of botany and horticulture has 

 undertaken the improvement of native grasses; the development of a 

 drought-resistant variety of alfalfa; and tests of the value of salt- 

 bushes in Nevada, of the best grasses for meadows, and of drought- 

 resistant grasses for ranges. Irrigation investigations have been 

 continued in cooperation with this Office. An instrument for carefully 

 measuring the water used has been installed, and the agriculturist is 

 to be given an assistant for irrigation work, whose salary is to be paid 

 out of funds appropriated by the State for irrigation investigations. 



The station was badly crippled by the fire of August, 1900, which 

 destroyed the station building, together with the valuable botanical 

 and entomological collections and part of the books and laboratory 

 equipment used by the station officers. The latter now occupy the 

 former Mines Building, which furnishes good quarters for all of the 

 departments except that of chemistry. The State, however, has given 

 $12,000 for a new chemical building, which will be completed during 

 the coming winter, and will furnish adequate laboratory facilities for 

 the chemical work of the station. During the year six members of the 

 staff have taken part in farmers' institutes. Nature-study work has 

 been undertaken by the university with promise o£ success. 



