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Title: Report on the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations for the year ended …
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: United States.: Office of Experiment Stations
Subjects: Agricultural experiment stations--United States Agriculture--United States.
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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the value of paris green for potato beetles. lUdletin 51, pp. 12.—Methods of Combating Communicable Diseases ofFarm Animals.—A popular discussion of the cause and origin of com-municable diseases; general methods of prevention and control; inocu-lation against anthrax or charbon; prevention and control of Texasfever; and on the limitations of experiment station aid in this work. Annual Report, 1H97, pp. 5, Appendix, pp. 135.—Organization list,brief report by tlie director on the bulletins issued and the generalwork of the year, and a financial statement for the fiscal year endingJune 30, 1897. The Appendix is made up of bulletins 44-48 of thestation. The work of the Arkansas station continues to be managed on thesame conservative policy as heretofore. The station is accomplishingconsiderable work along lines of much usefulness to the agriculture of United States appropriationFarm products $15, 000.0057.89 Total 15,057.89 U. S Dept of Agn Bui 61, Office of Expt. Stations Plate I.
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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 19 the State. Its publications are being more generally distributed as theresult of the requests of the farmers to be put on the mailing list.There is still Deed that the State should provide the station with moresuitable land for its held work at Fayettevilie. ( aliioi:ma. Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, BerkeleyDEP.u: imim i 01 Tin: cxiveksity 01 CALIFORNIA. The work of the California station during tlie past year has beenalong the same lines as heretofore, including chemical and physicalinvestigations of Soils, especially of alkali lands, with reference to recla-mation: analyses of fruits, forage plants, feeding stuffs, su»ar beets,etc.; investigations on the culture of olives and the making of olive oil,and in viticulture and wine making: entomological investigations;studies in botany, horticulture, and forestry; and culture experimentswith a great variety of forage plants, cereals, vegetables, fruits, andforest treportagric00unit

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