Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1905 Page: 91
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MISSISSIPPI. 91
MISSISSIPPI.
Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural College.a
Department of Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College.
W. L. HUTCHINSON, M. S., Director.
GENERAL OUTLOOK.
The Mississippi Station has made marked progress in carrying on
investigations bearing on the improvement of agricultural practice
in the South. The feeding work of the station has been materially
strengthened and is yielding important results. The station has
demonstrated that a profit of $16.70 a head can be made on baby
beef, including one year's keep of the dam, and that stockers can be
produced at a profit of from $15 to $20 a head. This is one of the
most important things the station has done in feeding. It has also
demonstrated the need of good cattle for profitable work. Silage has
been found cheaper and better than cotton-seed hulls. The station
has been the pioneer in silo building in that section, and its work
has led the farmers to take it up, especially for dairy work. In an
experiment in grazing hogs on cowpeas last fall 483 pounds of pork
was made to the acre of peas, without corn or any other feed.
Alfalfa was tried, but not found so good. Experiments with cultures
of nitrogen-fixing bacteria from this Department gave excellent
results. The poultry work now includes feeding for egg and
meat production with 10 breeds of chickens.
The horticulturist secured from the orchard last year the largest
profit since it was planted, the shippers' net returns from the 6
acres being nearly $1,800. The agronomy work of the station is now
better defined than formerly and includes breeding work with corn
and cotton. The other investigations have been continued as formerly.The college has built several new barns, some of which give the
station better facilities. These include a $7,000 dairy barn, a $4,000
barn for beef cattle, and new barns for work animals and for implements.
Work has been started on a new dairy building to cost about
$10,000. Considerable interest in teaching agriculture in the rural
schools is being taken by the college authorities. The professor of
agriculture is devoting much time to this work. A summer school
for teachers was held at the college in June and July with an enrollment
of over 200 teachers, many of whom took courses in agriculture,
horticulture, nature study, and school gardening.
Work has progressed at the three substations supported by State
aTelegraph address, Starkville; express and post-office address, Agricultural
College; freight address, A. and M. College Station.
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United States. Office of Experiment Stations. Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1905, book, 1906; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6017/m1/95/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.