TEXAS. 1»89 



TEXAS. 

 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station. a 

 Department of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. 



GOVEKNING BOARD. 



Board of Directors: M. Sansom (Pres.), Alvarado; F. A. Reichardt, Houston; A. C. 

 Oliver, Douglassville ; William Malone, Hunter; P. H. Tobin, Denison; A. P. Smyth, 

 Mart; John W. Kokernot, San Antonio; Jeff Johnson, Austin. 



STATION STAFF. 



R. H. Whitlock, M. E., President pro tern, of the College. 

 J. H. Connell, M. S., Dir. E. A. White, Asst. Hort. 



H. H. Harrington, M. S., Chem. J. W. Walden, B. S., Student Asst. in Hort. 



M. Francis, D. V. M., Vet. K. K. Hooper, Chief Clerk. 



R. H. Price, B. S., Hort. J. G. Harrison, Bookkeeper. 



B. C. Pittuck, B. S. A., Agr. J. J. Hooper, Sten. and Clerk. 



P. S. Tilson, B. S., Asst. Chem. S. A. McHenry, Supt. State Sta. (Beeville). 



J. W. Carson, B. S. A., Supt. of Farm. 



LINES OF WOKK. 



The principal lines of work undertaken at the Texas Station during 

 the past year, named in the order of the effort and money expended 

 in their support, are as follows: Experiments with grasses, forage 

 plants, corn, cotton; and fertilizers in cooperation with more than 100 

 farmers throughout the State; investigation of the Texas fever prob- 

 lem, especially methods of treatment after inoculation to reduce the 

 fatality resulting from inoculation; experiments with orchard fruits, 

 dewberries, blackberries, strawberries, and tigs; investigations in 

 making molasses from sugar cane for the purpose of increasing the 

 value of this crop when grown upon farms not convenient to sugar- 

 houses. The station is cooperating with this Department as follows: 

 With this Office in irrigation investigations; with the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry in efforts to improve the wheat industry and in experiments 

 at selected points to test the adaptability of certain forage plants for 

 meadows and pastures; with the Bureau of Forestry in tree planting; 

 with the Bureau of Chemistry in studying the influence of environ- 

 ment on the sugar content of muskmelons; with the Bureau of Soils 

 in the selection of typical soil areas, and with the Division of Ento- 

 mology in studies of the Mexican cotton-boll weevil. 



The completion of the new agricultural and horticultural building 

 and the purchase of valuable equipment have materially improved the 

 facilities for station work. In this building a cannery is being 

 equipped, partly for experimental purposes. During the session of 

 the legislature held the past summer liberal appropriations for both 

 college and station were made. Five thousand dollars was added to 



a Express and telegraph address, Bryan. 



