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  Kentucky Agricultural I
  Experiment Station
  UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY  
  I LEXINGTON, KY. I
  FOR THE YEAR 1918
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Kentucky Agricultural   A
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FOR THE YEAR 1918 r
PART 1.
Report of Director and Heads of Departments.
Meteorological Observations.

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 LETTER OF TRANSIVIITTAL.
T0 H-is Excellency, p
HoN. Auensrns Owsmzv STANLEY,
Governor of Kclntucky.
Sir:
Under tl1e authority of the Board of Control of tl1e Ken-
tucky Agricultural Experiment Station, and in accordance
with an act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887, entitled,
"An Act to establish Agricultural Experiment Stations in ·
connection with the Agricultural Colleges established in the
several states under the provision of an Act approved July 2,
1862, and under the Acts supplementary thereto," and of the
Act of the Legislature of the State of Kentucky, approved
February 20, 1888, entitled, "An Act to accept the provisions
_ of an Act passed by the Congress of the United States, A
approved March 2, 1887, for the establishment and mainten-
ance of Agricultural Experiment Stations in connection with _
Agricultural Colleges established by the several states and
territories under an Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862,"
I herewith submit the Thirty-First Annual Report of the
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. ·
Very respectfully,
Tnonrxs Coornn, Director.
January 1, 1918.

 C     A UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY.
    T Lexington, Ky. ·_
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  { ‘n`_ , Board of Trustees.
  Hon. A. Owsley Stanley, Governor, Chairman, cx 0#¢Zc’i0
j   Virgil O. Gilbert, Superintendent oi Public Instruction,
    ex officio
    Mat S. Cohen, Commissioner of Agriculture, ex ojfficlio
V i   J. M. Elliston, Glencoe, Gallatin County
    R. P. Ernst, Covington, Kenton County
  R. G. Gordon, Louisville, Jefferson County
i     H. M. Froman, Ghent, Carroll County A
 S?     J. R. Rash, Henderson, Henderson County ` _
    P. P. Johnston, Jr., Lexington, Fayette County
  i J. I. Lyle, 39 Cortlanclt St., New York City
    R. C. Stoll, Lexington, Fayette County
      J. VV. Turner, Paintsville, Johnson County 4
.   Rainey T. \Vells, Murray, Calloway County
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Ex|=ERiMEN1· STATION? STAFF V
7 BOARD OF CONTROL
Richard C. Stoll, Chairman, Lexington, Ky,
P. Preston Johnston, Lexington, Ky.
R. P. Ernst, Covington, Ky.
R. G. Gordon, Louisville, Ky.
J. M. Elliston, Elliston, Ky. _
Frank L, McVey, President Thomas P. Cooper, Dean and Director
ADMINISTRATION ENTOMOLOGY AND BOTANY
T. P. Cooper, Director H. Garman, Head
D. H. Peak, Business Agent Mary L. Didlake, Asst. .
A. M. rem-, cum. Pubiieations com. H. H. Jewett. Research Asst. Ent.
E. C. Vaughn, Asst.
AGRONOMY Homer Perry, Seed Analyst _
Carrie Lee Hathaway, Seed Analyst
George Roberts, Head M. J. Perry, Seed Analyst
E. J. Kinney, Asst. Agron.
P. E. Karraker, Asst. Agron. FARM MANAGEMENT
A. E. Ewan, Supt. Exp. Fields my D_ NlCllOlls’ Head I
ANIl\lAL 1NDUsTRY FEED CONTROL? .
E. S. Good, Chairman, Head Sec, I J. D. Turner, Head ,
L. J. Horlacher, Asst.   Sfilézalihcgggggétor
E. J. xviirom Asst ‘ “` S" ·
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J. J. Hooper, Head see. II W G Teuel nspec Or
W. S. Anderson, Asst. Horse Husb. FERTILIZER CONTROL C
J. H. Martin, Poultryman _
J· XV. Nllttér, Dairyingn Ii; E. Clll`°LlS, HGRQ
, . . , V . \\m. Rodes, Chemist
L. L. Pontius, Net. An. Pathol. all S_ LCG ASSt_ CllGm_
*A. L. lirueckner, Asst. in An. l"athol. Roger “1_ Jones, lllspgcml-
Amanda Harms, ‘Asst. Patho. Bact. P, E' Bacon, Inspector _
CHEMISTRY HORTICULTURE
A, M_ peter, 1-[cud ’*C. NV. Mathews, Head
s. D. Averm, chemist     £E;‘;,“·A·;*;§1"g Head
O. M. Shedd, Chemist F; _]':SutL01i, Asstl.
G. D. Buckner, Chemist Mahal ltoe, .\sst_ Plant Pathol.
J. S. l\IcHargue, Chemist
*l‘. L. lilumentlial MARKETS ~
wa D· Nev ASSL Chcmist John R. Humphrey, Head
D. J. Healy, Bact.
PUBLIC SERVICE L.\l2ORATO`RTES
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J. O. LaBach, Head
————- L. A. Brown, Sp. Analytical Chem.
*On leave of absence. \V. R. Pinnell, Sp. Bact.
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 V THE KENTUCKY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
l _ STATION. .
` ; In Account with the United States Appropriations, 1917-18:
  " _ Hatch Adams
  - Fund Fund
, , Receipts from the Treasurer of the
i   United St·ates, as per apprcpria- ‘
7     tions for fiscal year ended June
    30, 1918, under Acts of Congress,
  eapproved March 2, 1887 (Hatch .
    Fund) and March 16, 1906 (Adams _
    Fund) .....,........ L ............,.................................................. $15,000.00 $15,000.00
I   " Expenditures: ‘ ’
I   By Salaries ....................................,.......................... $11,090.19 $11,683.91
.   Labor .................................................................. 503.78 430.45
    , Publications _ ................................................ - 888.05
  ; Postage and stationery ..................... 427.72 3.56
V I   Freight and express ........................... 87.68 13.36
'   L Heat, light, water and power ...... 682.14 249.40
  Chemicals and laboratory
_   supplies ............................................. , _..__._. 347,98 552,62
    Seeds, plants and sundry
I _ F  { supplies ............................................. Q ........ 194.27 169.25
— i. L Fertilizers ......................................................
  `   Feeding stuffs ...................,,,,,_,,, , ,,__________ y 72750
  .i`_ i` Library .................... f ........................ . ,..,-,,,,,____, 200,46 10300
  Tools, machinery, appliances ...,.. 12.97 25.65
. -·   **1 Furniture and fixtures ............ . ........ 149.40 20.40
    ‘i‘_ ef; Scientific apparatus and spec-
8  5 imens ..................................,....,,,,,,,.,,,__,,,_,______ 4500 147,50
  Live stock ......................................................... 795.30
    ‘ Traveling expenses .............................. 321.64 52.72
  »°’i,   Contingent expenses ......,,.,,,,__,...,___,,,, 20,00 1,50
`I  Buildings and land ...,........,........,........... 28.72 22.98 \
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  ' Total ........................ . ....,............,........... $15,000.00 $15,000.00
   
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 We, the undersigned, duly appointed Auditors of the
Corporation, do hereby certify that we have examined the
books and accounts of the Kentucky Agricultural Experi—
ment Station for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918; tl1at
we have found the same well kept and classiied as above;
that the balance brought forward from the preceding year
was nothing on the Hatch Fund and nothing on the Adams
Fund; that the receipts for the year from the Treasurer 0E
the United States were $15,000.00 under the Act of Congress
of March 2, 1887, and $15,000.00 under the Act of Congress
of March 16, 1906, and the corresponding disbursements
$15,000.00 and $15,000.00; for all of which proper vouchers
are on file and have been by us examined and found correct,
leaving balances of nothing and nothing. '
And we further certify that the expenditures have been
solely for the purposes set forth in the Acts of Congress
approved March 2, 1887, and March 16, 1906, and in accord- i
ance with the terms of said Acts, respectively.
A (Signed) P. P. Johnston, Jr.
A Welliiigtoii Patrick,
L (SCM) Auditors.
Attest: Yilellington Patrick,
) Custodian. ‘
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 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.
` Kentuell'lIl2lll1l7ll. (iiarnian
and (`arrie l.ee llathaway. July. 1918.
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