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been the discovery of the fate of the sugar in the process of cheese 

 making and ripening. The transformed sugar has been traced and 

 accounted for, showing the relation between the amount of sugar used 

 and the quality of the cheese. This discovery goes a long way toward 

 explaining some of the purely empirical rules of cheese making. 



The Wisconsin College of Agriculture continues to concentrate the 

 efforts of its strongest men on a few important lines of investigation 

 in the experiment station, with results that fully justify the policy. 

 That these results are appreciated in the State is evidenced by the lib- 

 eral appropriations made by the legislature during the year for build- 

 ings and maintenance, by the graceful tribute to the chemist of the 

 station in awarding him a medal for his inventions and discoveries, 

 and b} r the very large and growing correspondence with farmers repre- 

 senting all phases of agricultural practice in the State. The short 

 courses in the college continue to be well patronized, and a movement 

 has been inaugurated for extending the influence of both college and 

 station by means of an experimental union of students organized to 

 conduct cooperative experiments. 



WYOMING. 



Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station, Laramie. 

 Department of the University of Wyoming. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Trustees: Otto Gramm (Pres.), Laramie; T. F. Burke ( V. Pres.) , Cheyenne; 

 Grace R. Hebard (Sec), Cheyenne; J. C. Davis (Treas.), Rawlins; A. C. Jones, 

 Laramie; S. Conant Parks, Lander; J. A. Beckwith, Evanston; H. L. Stevens, 

 Laramie; Mortimer Jesurun, Douglas; T. T. Tynan (State Supt. of Public Instruction), 

 Cheyenne; E. E. Smiley (Prss. University), Laramie. 



STATION STAFF. 



E. E. Smiley, D. D., President of the University and Director. 

 Frank E. Emery, M. S. A., V. Dir.; Agr. W. C. Knight," M. A., Ph. D., Geol. 



and Hort. C. B. Ridgaway, M. A., Phys. and Math. 



Aven Nelson, M. S., M. A., Bot. Grace R. Hebard, M. A., Ph. D., Sec. 



E. E. Slosson, M. S., Chem. Burton P. Fleming, B. S., Irrig. 



Elias E. Nelson, M. A., Hort. and Agros. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Wyoming Station during the past year has included 

 irrigation and alkali investigations, especially measurements of water, 

 the duty of water with different crops, the effect of irrigation on alkali 

 in the soil, experiments with economic plants on alkali soils, and a 

 study of evaporation from soils containing different amounts of alkali; 

 rotation experiments, continuous cropping, and cropping with and 

 without summer cultivation; experiments with alfalfa as a soil reno- 

 vator; variety tests with oats and wheat; smut and cultural experi- 



