· Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. xi
ment Station looking to the establishment of a number of
‘ experimental fields in different parts of the State and during
the past year, one such field has been definitely established
at Lone Oak in ll/[cCracken County. The soil survey of
Webster County has been completed and the results published
in Bulletin 162 and, as indicated in the report of thechemical
work of the Experiment Station, one hundred and seventy-
three soils have been analyzed in the chemical laboratory of
the Experiment Station during the past year, and also sixty
specimens of limestone for agricultural purposes. On the
various experimental fields which it is our purpose to estab-
lish throughout the State, it is proposed to study those sys-
tems of crop rotation best adapted to the particular soil type
for the development and maintenance of permanent soil fer-
I tility. A portion of the Experiment Station farm has been
definitely set apart for, horticultural experiments. During
the past year, an extensive survey of the dairy farms of the
State has been conducted by Messrs. Hooper and Nicholls, the
usual high standards of milk production have been maintained
throughout-the past year and valuable experiments have
been conducted on the rearing of calves by hand. Studies
have been made on contagious abortion in cows and a
simple diagnostic test for this disease devised. Experiments V
on poultry raising and increased egg production have been
carried on at the Experiment Station farm. The Department
of Agricultural Extension has been greatly strengthened
and every reasonable effort is being made to bring the
valuable results of Experiment Station work directly home
to theiman on the farm. As pointed out elsewhere in this _
report, one-fifth of the State appropriation for 1912 has been
definitely set apart by the Board of Control of the Experi-
mentPStation for the erection and equipment of a new and
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