I  
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Statnon
FOR THE YEAR 1917.
I REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR.
ORG.\NIZ.\TION. The Executive Committee of the Board i
of Trustees has taken over the functions of the Board of Con-
trol of tl1e Station.
Tl1e Department of Agricultural Economics was discon-
tinued soon after the resignation of Professor C. D. Bohannan,
Acting llead. A Department of Farm Management has been
established, u11der Professor VV. D. Nicholls as Head, and a
Department of Markets, John R. Humphrey, llead. ln Dec-
ember, the 11211110 of the Department of Diseases of Live Stock
was changed to Department. of Veterinary Science. Fourteen
departnients were represented in our organization: Adminis- '
tration, Agricultural Economies, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry
li (beef cattle, sheep and swine), Animal Husbandry Il
(horses. dairy cattle and poultry), (`hemistry, Diseases of Live
Stock, Ento1nolog_v and Botany, Farm Management. Feeds,
Fertilizers. Food and Drugs, Tlorticulture &`tl1(l Markets. Rc-
ports of the several Departinent. heads are incorporated in the
following pages, for the purpose of ai"t’ording a fair presenta-
tion of the 1nan_v activities of thc Experiinent Station.
R1·;s1·;.xi<(r1t \Von1;. Investigations have been prosecuted
n1ainl_v along the lines stated in tl1e last report. For further
details, reference is made to the Departinent reports incorpor-
ated l1erewitl1. Three new projects have been added to tl1e