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SOUTH CAROLINA. 



South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Clemson College.* 

 Department of Clemson Agricultural College. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Trustees: R. W. Simpson (Pres.) , Pendleton; P. H. E. Sloan (Sec. and 

 Treas.), Clemson College; D. K. Norris, Hickoryflat; M. L. Donaldson, Greenville; 

 R. E. Bowen, Briggs; B. R. Tillman, Trenton; J. E. Bradley, Hunters; W. D. Evans, 

 Cheraw; L. A. Sease, Lewiedale; J. E. Wannamaker, St. Matthews; A. T. Smythe, 

 Charleston; C. S. Garris, Spartanburg; J. E. Tindal, Silver; J. H. Hardin, Chester. 



STATION STAFF. 



Henry S. Hartzog, LL. D. , President of the College and Director. 

 J. S. Newman, V. Dir.; Agr. C. C. McDonnell, Asst. Chem. 



M. B. Hardin, Chem. R. N. Brackett, Ph. D., Asst. Chem. 



B. F. Robertson, B. S., Asst. Chem. C. C. Newman, Hort. 



F. S. Shiver, Ph. G., Asst. Chem. Chas. E. Chambliss, Ent., Bot., and Bact. 



D. H. Henry, B. S., Asst. Chem. G. E. Nesom, B. S., D. V. M., Vet. 



C. M. Conner, B. Agr., B. S., Asst. Agr. C. 0. Upton, Dairyman. 



and Dairyman. J. S. Pickett, Station Foreman. 



J. N. Hook, Sec. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the South Carolina Station during the past year has 

 included variety, cultural, and fertilizer experiments with wheat, cot- 

 ton, and forage crops; cultural and fertilizer experiments with oats, 

 peas, sweet potatoes, tobacco, chufas, artichokes, melons, and other 

 miscellaneous crops; pasturage and other experiments with breeds of 

 swine for economic pork production; experiments with poultry for 

 egg and meat production; experiments with Carolina rice meal as a 

 feed for milch cows and for young pigs; investigation of the chemical 

 composition of the rice plant and its products; analysis of fertilizers, 

 drinking water, minerals, ores, and soils; entomological investigations, 

 especially with the chinch bug, parasites of poultry, and insects injuri- 

 ous to the cotton plant, peanut, pecan, and the grapevine; diseases of 

 animals, especially Texas fever, glanders, and milk fever. For cows 

 having milk fever the ^veterinarian has devised a modification of the 

 apparatus for giving the Schmidt treatment, which it is claimed is very 

 effective in reducing the number of deaths. Other work includes the 

 investigation of plant diseases, including cotton-boll rot, potato rot, 

 rusts, smuts, blights, black knot, peach yellows, etc. ; plant breeding 

 experiments with varieties of peaches and oranges; experiments with 

 spraying solutions for peach trees and grapevines; growing ginseng; 

 fertilizer and variety experiments with potatoes and garden vege- 

 tables; and forcing-house tests with lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, 

 strawberries, and cauliflower. 



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