192 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



water, seepage, evaporation, and methods of irrigation; survey of 

 actual irrigation conditions; dry farming; experiments with wheat, 

 oats, and barley to develop varieties with drought-resisting properties; 

 grasses and forage crops for the arid West; curing and handling alfalfa; 

 destruction of dodder; rotation of crops; plants for alkali lands; feed- 

 ing value of crops grown with different amounts of water; pasture v. 

 soiling on irrigated lands; the value of alfalfa fed with other fodders; 

 daily b}^-products in feeding hogs and calves; feeding experiments 

 with sheep and dairy cows; alfalfa v. timothy for horses; influence 

 of alfalfa on the color and flavor of butter; testing varieties of fruit 

 trees; experiments to originate red winter apples; keeping qualities 

 of apples; spraying experiments; effects of thinning peaches and ring- 

 ing grapevines; silk culture; forcing-house tests with tomatoes, lettuce, 

 rhubarb, mushrooms, winter muskmelons, and watermelons; chemical 

 investigations, including the effect of irrigation on the composition of 

 plants, digestibility of plants grown with different amounts of water, 

 irrigation v. soil fertility, alkali lands and their reclamation, irriga- 

 tion waters, soil survey of Utah, and soil moisture in irrigation work; 

 poultry experiments, including breeding experiments to develop good 

 layers, feeding experiments, methods of feeding and management, 

 relative profitableness of different breeds, pullets v. hens for layers, 

 artificial incubation, and value of caponizing. Irrigation investiga- 

 tions in cooperation with this Office have been continued. Cooperative 

 work has also been arranged with several bureaus of this Department, 

 and includes sugar-beet investigations with the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 tree planting with the Bureau of Forestry, experiments with grasses 

 and forage plants for arid and alkali soils with the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, and investigations of alkali soils with reference to seepage 

 and drainage with the Bureau of Soils. 



The State legislature at its last session was quite liberal to the col- 

 lege and station, giving them about $108,000. Of this amount $10,000 

 has been expended in the construction of a cattle barn and a sheep 

 barn and in the remodeling of the old barn; $3,800 has been set aside 

 for use in purchasing pure-bred stock; $1,550 for hog pens, yards, 

 fences, floors, etc.; $1,500 for a vegetation house; $1,000 for purchas- 

 ing land on the plains for experimental purposes, and $250 for a water 

 right. All of these expenditures will be mainty for the benefit of 

 the experiment station, which will thus be well equipped, especially 

 for work in animal husbandry and irrigation. Owing to the diseased 

 condition of the old herds, all live stock, with the exception of horses, 

 has been disposed of and only new, sound animals will be put in the 

 new barns. The legislature also appropriated $6,000 for two years 

 for a fruit experiment station at St. George, to be known as the 

 Southern Utah Experiment Station. The college expended during 

 the year $1,500 in promoting the farmers' institute movement, station 



