200 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



WASHINGTON. 



Washington Agricultural Experiment Station, Pullman. 



Department of Washington Agricultural College and School of Science. 



GOVEENING BOARD. 



Board of Regents: F. J. Barnard, Seattle; R. C. McCroskey, Garfield; H. W. Can- 

 field, Colfax; J. W. Stearns (Treas.), Tekoa; H. D. Crow, Spokane. 



STATION STAFF. 



E. A. Bryan, M. A., President of the College and Director. 

 E. E. Elliott, M. S., Agr. R. E. Snodgrass, Asst. Ent. 



Chas. V. Piper, M. S., Bot. and Zool. R. W. Thatcher, B. S., Asst. Chem. 



S. W. Fletcher, Hort. R. Kent Beattie, M. A., Asst. Bot. 



Elton Fulmer, M. A., Chem. O. L. Waller, Irrig. Engin. 



Sofus B. Nelson, D. V. M., Vet. David A. Brodie, B. S., Supt. Puyallup 



H. S. Davis, Asst. Zool. Station. 



J. S. Cotton, In Charge of Cooperative Range Experiments. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Washington Station during the past year has in- 

 cluded experiments with grasses and forage plants for farms and for the 

 ranges in the semi-arid belt; cultural experiments with cereals; exten- 

 sive breeding experiments with wheat; rotation experiments; feeding 

 experiments with steers, pigs, and sheep; chemical investigations 

 with soils, sugar beets, potatoes, and wild oats; horticultural investi- 

 gations, including cover crops for orchards, spraying for apple scab, 

 potash fertilizers for fruit, smudging for protection from frost, 

 orchard pollination, vegetable gardening, cooperative work in straw- 

 berry culture, and to determine the causes of failure of Italian prunes 

 in Clarke County; study of diseases and insects injurious to grain, 

 fruit, and garden vegetables; irrigation investigations; veterinary 

 work, including an investigation of moldy hay as a supposed cause of 

 spinal meningitis; experiments with plants poisonous to sheep, and a 

 continuation of studies of glanders and tuberculosis, and the investi- 

 gation of means for controlling or eradicating the ground squirrel. 

 The irrigation investigations are conducted in cooperation with this 

 Office, and the experiments with grasses and forage plants for the 

 improvement of the Northwestern ranges in cooperation with the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. Work at the Puyallup 

 Substation is being continued with State funds, but the station has 

 withdrawn entirely from its connection with the oyster-culture station 

 on Puget Sound. 



The agriculturist has given much attention to the breeding of wheats 

 in order to develop a fall «lub wheat, and has succeeded already in 

 making some quite valuable improvements. The work at Yakima, 

 Puyallup, and Pullman with forage plants for hay and pasture is partly 

 carried on in cooperation with farmers and is giving a remarkable 



