188 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Bulletin Vol. H, No. 1, pp. 31, pi. 1, figs. 11. — Experiments with 

 Corn, Forage Crops, and Spring Cereals. — This bulletin reports the 

 results of tests of varieties of corn, sorghum, Kafir corn, durra, broom 

 corn, cowpeas, millet, Canadian field peas, and spring varieties of 

 wheat, oats, and barley; and of tests of sowing rape, oats, and barley 

 at different dates, and of seed corn taken from different parts of the 

 ear. The draft these crops make on the soil and the root systems of 

 corn, sorghum, cowpeas, and soy beans were also studied. 



Annual Report, 1900, pp. 4-0, pis. % y figs. 11, charts 3. — This includes 

 a general outline of station work during the year; a history of the 

 station from 1882 to 1900, with a list of publications issued during 

 that time; reports by the agriculturist, botanist, horticulturist, chem- 

 ist, and librarian reviewing the work of the different departments; 

 a brief discussion of the object, construction, and use of daily weather 

 charts by the meteorologist, and a financial statement for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1900. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Tennessee Station is conducting a number of lines of work of 

 great importance to the agriculture of the State. Its efforts to intro- 

 duce improved varieties of winter cereals are important because the 

 culture of such crops keeps the ground covered, prevents losses of 

 nitrogen and the washing of soil, and enables the production of large 

 quantities of grain for feeding live stock. Of closely related impor- 

 tance are the establishment of good pastures and meadows, and the 

 production of legumes for silage and for green forage. The station has 

 demonstrated that wheat, barley, and oats can be profitably grown in 

 Tennessee, and that they can be removed in time to sow cowpeas, sor- 

 ghum, corn, etc., for silage or winter feeding. The exhausted condi- 

 tion of many of the soils of the State gives importance to studies relating 

 to the rotation of crops and the restoration of fertility^ by means of 

 natural and artificial fertilizers and green manuring crops. By the 

 use of green manures alone the station has shown that some of the 

 poorest and most neglected soils of the State can be reclaimed. Other 

 important work has been the chemical examination of the cotton plant, 

 the utilization of cotton-seed meal in feeding beef and dairy cattle, the 

 successful spraying of fruit trees for fungus diseases and injurious 

 insects, and the preparation of a soil map of the State. 



The dissemination of information regarding these investigations 

 through the station publications, the newspapers of the State, attend- 

 ance of the staff upon farmers' institutes and meetings of farmers at 

 the university has brought the farmers in touch with the station and 

 widened its sphere of influence. These conditions and the organiza- 

 tion ot the staff on a more efficient basis put the station in a position 

 to be of great usefulness to the agriculture of the State. 



