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acidity of the soil, conservation of moisture, etc. ; variety tests with 

 cereals, forage crops, and garden vegetables; feeding experiments with 

 sheep, swine, and dairy cows; dairy investigations; chemical studies 

 with fruits, vinegars, forage crops, silage, plant foods, and soils, etc. ; 

 entomological investigations; bacteriological studies of diseases of 

 poultry, sheep, goats, and calves, and with vinegars, yeasts, smuts, 

 sheep dips, and milk; horticultural and botanical investigations, includ- 

 ing plant breeding, root pruning and grafting, fruit preservation, 

 protection by means of sheaths for the trunks nf young orchard trees, 

 and studies of native clovers, grasses, and poisonous plants. 



The variety tests are conducted for the purpose of introducing 

 grains adapted to the peculiar conditions of the region and forage 

 plants capable of augmenting the protein-yielding feeding stuffs of the 

 farm. The dairy instructor is studying the keeping qualities of sep- 

 arated milk, effect of pasteurization, methods of testing milk, and 

 other dairy problems. The division of entomology and plant diseases 

 has investigated a serious outbreak of the variegated cutworm {Pen- 

 dromia saucia), continued the work on apple-tree anthracnose, brought 

 to a conclusion the work of several years on the codling moth, and 

 begun a study on the nature of prune-leaf curl. A study of foreign 

 hops grown under local conditions has been undertaken. The station 

 is cooperating with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department in 

 experiments with sand-binding grasses, plants poisonous to live stock, 

 and red clover to determine the influence of the origin of seed on the 

 yield of crop. Cooperative experiments with legumes at Moro, in 

 eastern Oregon, have been continued. The station conducts farmers' 

 institutes with funds furnished by the State. A new evaporating 

 plant (PL V, fig. 2) well equipped for technical and scientific work 

 has been completed, and investigations in fruit evaporation and the 

 utilization of secondary products of the orchard have been under- 

 taken. The station chemist, entomologist, and bacteriologist have 

 been released from college duties in order that they may devote their 

 whole time to station work. 



The State legislature at its last session appropriated $5,000 a year 

 for two years for the establishment of a State experiment station in 

 eastern Oregon, to be under the supervision of the station at Cor vail is. 

 The site chosen is at Union, Union County, where 640 acres of State 

 land have been turned over to the station, and work in growing forage 

 crops has been started. For the present this will be a seed-growing 

 station to distribute seeds to ranchers in a cooperative way for the 

 purpose of encouraging forage production and range improvement. 

 Later, problems in stock feeding will be taken up. The farm build- 

 ings include a house and barn. A $3,000 station building for offices 

 and storeroom will soon be erected. 



