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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



Experimental Directors. 



Mr. McColl (presiding) : "We will now listen to a number of reports 

 of the progress being made at state experimental stations and agricul- 

 tural colleges." 



COLORADO. 



Professor H. M. Bainer, professor of farm mechanics of the Colorado 

 Agricultural College, addressed the convention as follows: 



"Gentlemen of the Congress: In giving the report from Colorado 

 I fear that there are others better prepared to give this report than I am. 

 Professor Olin, who is in the Congress at the present time, has been the 

 Agronomist during the past years and so far as breeding work in grains, 

 forage crops, etc., is concerned, Professor Olin is better prepared to give 

 that than I. 



Field Co-Operation. 



"I will say that our experiment station has done some co-operativ« 

 M^ork with the farmers of the state in conducting dry farming experi- 

 ments. We are located in an irrigation district at Fort Collins. We do 

 not have very much dry farming in the immediate vicinity of Fort Col- 

 lins, and the station does not farm any dry farm land. The land is prac- 

 tically all under ditch, except a small piece of pasture land. 



Farm Machinery. 



"We have been doing some work in the line of farm machinery, and 

 I like to talk about farm machinery, because I am at the head of the farm 

 machinery department at the college. We do some work toward secur- 

 ing the best dry farming machinery, and in fact all kinds of machinery 

 used in irrigation and dry farming districts. We have secured (luite a 

 number of valuable tools. 



IVIacliinery Exiiibits. 



"You will find some of those tools represented in the machinery ex- 

 hibit here at the present Congress. There is a good display of imple- 

 ments and tools adapted to dry farming conditions and irrigation con- 

 ditions. I think it is only fa,^"r to make it a point to visit these exhibits 

 and to look over, and encourage these machinery men rn making bigger 

 and better exhibits another year. So far as the machinery we are trying 

 to experiment with at the Colorado Agricultural College is concerned, I 

 will say that we have done considerable work with the disc and mold- 

 board plows, and also with some of the new implements such as the 

 renovator for alfalfa. 



Alfalfa Renovator. 



This device is for fixing up the ground after the harrows. That is, 

 it is a common smoothing harrow for making good seed bed. 



