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divisions of agriculture, botany, and horticulture are cooperating in 

 this work and their efforts give promise of valuable results. Difficul- 

 ties in the administration of this station have of late been a hindrance 

 to its work. There is still need of a settled policy of management by 

 which the work of the station will be clearly differentiated from that of 

 other departments of the college. The station should again have a sepa- 

 rate director, who should be made fully responsible for its work and 

 expenditures, and be given authority to control the funds of the sta- 

 tion and the work of members of the staff in accordance with a well 

 matured plan of investigations. 



TENNESSEE. 



Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Knoxville. 



Department of the University of Tennessee. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Trustees — Experiment Station Committee: J. W. Caldwell {Acting 

 Chair.), Knoxville; T. E. Harwood, Trenton; T. F. P. Allison, Nashville; 0. P. Temple, 

 Knoxville; J. B. Killebrew, Nashville; Harris Brown, Gallatin. 



STATION STAFF. 



Chas. W. Dabney, Ph. D., LL. D., President of the College. 

 Andrew M. Soule, B. S. A., V. Dir. and John R. Fain, Farm Manager. 



Agr. Phares 0. Vanatter, Plat Expert. 



Charles A. Keffer, B. H., Hort. and For. Samuel E. Barnes, B. 8., M. S. A., Dairy- 

 C. A. Mooers, B. S., Chem. ^ man. 



S. M. Bain, B. A., Bot. M. Jacob, V. M. D., Vet. 



Weston M. Fulton, Met. Ethel Reese, Sten. 



F. H. Broome, Libr. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Tennessee Station during the past year has been 

 continued along the same general lines as former^, and has included 

 plat and field experiments with clovers and other legumes for forage 

 and green manuring and with wheat and grasses; dairying; feeding 

 experiments with dairy and beef cattle and hogs; horticultural investi- 

 gations, including orchard work, spraying, and variety tests of straw- 

 berries; study of the effect of fungicides on foliage; chemical study of 

 soils, combined with cooperative field experiments in various parts* of 

 the State, and meteorological observations. The station is cooperating 

 with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department in investigations 

 of the influence of origin of red-clover seed on the yield of crop and 

 experiments in the formation and management of meadows and pastures. 



Early in the year the agriculturist was made vice-director and 

 placed in charge of the station work. A farm foreman was employed 



