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GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Ohio Station continues to devote considerable effort to the solu- 

 tion of problems in the maintenance of soil fertility, and the result of 

 applying- different fertilizers during the past year has shown striking 

 contrasts. It has been shown that barnyard manure taken fresh from 

 the stalls and applied to corn is worth about 50 cents more per ton 

 than that which has lain in a level open yard during the winter. The 

 addition of gypsum or kainit to the manure a few weeks before its 

 application increases its effectiveness, and still greater effectiveness is 

 produced by the addition of acid phosphate and of finely ground 

 unacidulated rock known as "floats." Of greater importance is the 

 fact that the yield from the use of unacidulated floats is quite as large 

 as that from an equal weight of acid phosphate, thus indicating the 

 possibility of dispensing with the acidulation of phosphate rock, pro- 

 viding it be finely ground and used in connection with barnyard 

 manure. The feeding experiments at the station have been brought 

 to a point where the results of several years' comparative study of 

 different breeds of cattle may be compiled for publication. 



The work of the Ohio Station has been organized upon a plan which 

 contemplates a long series of investigations upon a few principal lines 

 of research, hence the importance of the results attained from year to 

 year depends largel} T upon the result of the whole series of investiga- 

 tions. The inspection of nurseries under a State law has been organ- 

 ized separately from the general business of the station, and has proved 

 a task of much greater magnitude than was anticipated. Difficulties 

 in the administration of this station have of late been a serious hin- 

 drance to its work. The duties of the director should be more clearly 

 defined, and he should be made fully responsible for the direct man- 

 agement of the station, subject to the general policy established by 

 the board of control. 



OKLAHOMA. 



Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station, Stillwater. 

 Department of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Regents: F. J. Wikoff (Pres.) , Stilhuater; Gov. T. B. Ferguson, Guthrie; 

 H. G. Beard, Shawnee; T. J. Hartman (Treas.), Deer Creek; H. C. R. Brodboll, Ponca; 

 W. H. Merten, Guthrie. 



STATION STAFF. 



Angelo C. Scott, M. A., LL. M., President of the College. 

 John Fields, B. S., Dir.; Chem. Oscar M. Morris, B. S., Assoc. Hort. 



L. L. Lewis, M. S., D. V. M., Vet. A. B. McReynolds, B. S., Asst. Chem. 



F. C. Burtis, M. S., Agr. J. S. Malone, B. S., Asst. Agr. 



W. R. Shaw, Ph. D., Bot. and Ent. H. M. Hand, Clerk. 



Miss (l. M. Holt, Sten. 



