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COMMITTEE OX INVESTIGATION 



The Illinois Station reports the following work in progress: 

 Melon investigations, tomato experiments, onion experiments, the 

 use of nitrate of soda on root and foliage crops, the culture of head 

 lettuce, egg plant culture, fertilizer experiments with sweet potatoes, 

 spraying beans for anthracnose. 



The Idaho Statio?i is now conducting experiments with onions, 

 tomatoes, and melons under Idaho conditions. 



The Maryland Station likewise has a number of experiments on 

 this line under way. 



The Massachusetts Station is continuing its experiments with the 

 various garden vegetables, and at the sub-station at Concord, it is 

 endeavoring, in conection with the Bureau of Plant Industry, to 

 breed a rust-proof type of asparagus. An investigation is being 

 conducted as to the conditions affecting the marketing of crops, 

 such as pre-cooling, different methods of packing, ventilation, cold 

 storage, etc. 



The Missouri Station is doing some Avork in asparagus breeding, 

 in experiments with home canning of the different vegetables, in 

 methods of transplanting, etc. 



The Xew Hampshire Station is also doing some work along investi- 

 gations with vegetables. 



The New Jersey Station is carrying on investigations on plant 

 breeding. 



The Ohio Station reports work in progress with vegetables both 

 under glass and in the garden: in the greenhouse, such as variety 

 tests and breeding of tomato, lettuce, cucumber, and radish, also 

 soil treatments and systems of watering: in the garden, variety test 

 and breeding work with tomato, potato, cabbage, beet, sweet corn, 

 cucumber, etc.. also fertilizer tests with potatoes, and systems of 

 irrigation. 



The Nevada Station is working with plant diseases, irrigation, 

 and other problems, giving also particular attention to sugar beet 

 culture. 



The Xew York Station at Geneva does not specialize in vegetable 

 work but carries on trials in the greenhouse. 



Cornell University Station has established an experiment to 

 determine the best method of meeting the nitrogen requirements of 

 crops on muck soils. A simple system of crop accounting has been 

 devised, and records are being accumulated which will be of great 

 value in the future. Trials with tomatoes and squash are carried 

 on, as well as miscellaneous variety tests. 



