e ANNUAL REPORT
of the
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1918.
Report of the Director.
The work of the Agricultural Experiment Station during
the year was greatly affected by the war and war activities.
Departments lost a good proportion of their active working
force and the demands for trained men competent to lead
necessary organizations in the State to meet the nation’s
demands required much of the time of those who remained
in the various departments. Research work was, to a large
extent, discontinued except as it applied to problems rather
directly affecting the prosecution of the war.
lt is a noteworthy fact that when the call for information
came as to methods of stimulating production or of meeting
the wartime demand for crop and animal production, the Ken-
tucky Experiment Station was not only able to furnish infor- r
mation promptly, but its work required very little readjust-
ment to meet the wart-imc situation. Changed forms of sup-
plies of feeding stuffs, economical methods of meat production `
and the increased production of wheat and other farm crops,
brought out questions of procedure and methods that, to a
large extent, had been determined by the Experiment_Station.
The pre-war program of the Experiment Station had been
so well related to the agricultural problems ot the State, that
additional service in the war emergency was comparatively
simple. YVhen the demand came for more pork, beef, poul-
try, eggs, wheat and corn, the members of the staff were pre-
_ pared to suggest the most economical methods of production
and at the same time point out the possibilities of production
and marketing.
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