nEi>onT or AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 9_ ·
V— Results of the work done under Fertilizer Control are given in
the main in Bulletin No. 46. A considerable portion of the
time of the chemists has been occupied in this work.
19 The work on pests of shade and ornamental trees and an
experiment on plum rot is given in Bulletin No. 47. T .
P, From April to Novembermost of the time of the Director ,
was given to the Dairy Tests 'by the World’s Columbian Expo-
S, sition at Chicago. .
These Tests of Dairy breeds of cattle have been a subject of
` much interest to all interested in Dairy work, and especially
S. to the Stations, but the question of how to get a sutlicient num- ,
31 · ber of representative cows of the different breeds together in
an experiment without entailing an expense altogether beyond
1 the resources of any Experiment Station, has prevented any
systematic work in this line by our Experiment Stations, ex-
at cept in a few instances where but from 2 to 4 cows of each breed
70* were used. In all such cases results must be necessarily un-
ka satisfactory. Through the eifortsof Chief Buchanan, Depart-
ment of Agriculture, VVorld’s Columbian Exposition, the
BS Exposition authorities inaugurated a· breed test of Dai-ry cattle
S9 on a very extended scale. .
In order to conduct the test, Mr. Buchanan called to his
Of assistance the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and
YB Experiment Stations. This Association appointed a committee
Of to conduct the tests. As a member of that committee, I gave
most of my time from April to May. The results obtained at a
h` cost of about $70,000 will soon be available to the Stations, and
thus the test has furnished opportunity for the study of dairy
iy problems such as only could have been secured under the an-
d' n spices of such an organization as the \Vorld’s Columbian Expo-
sition. The tests are very full and complete. Nothing in the
ts dairy line has heretofore approached these tests in number of
cows under test, in length of time the tests cover, or in the
Of completeness of the records.
in _ ]’Ul§LlC.\'l`IONS. ·
Four Bulletins have been published and are incorporated in
BS, this report. Some 11,000 copies of each ot these Bulletins have
VS been distributed in the State. _` '
M. A. Scoviztn, Detector.