The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-27

a well 'set up" young man, the teach- ing of neatness and invariable punctu- ality whea successfully accomplished carries in themselves the argument for military training at college.
 The work of the Experiment Station Is in the minds of the people If Ala bama closely woven and identified with Auburn; to such an extent, perhaps, that in the popular mind, the para- mount interest of the school. In charge of the experiment work is Pro lessor J F. Duggar, of ability, of ner- vous energy and unt1agging industry. At the outset it must be understood that the Experiment Station has two fold purpose for existence. The sta ton is intended to give the student thorough training In agriculture and it's corollary branches and in the sec ond place the resources of the station are devoted to investigation to making experiments which will most benefit the farmers of Alabama and to the dis semtnation of that information.
 What has been done in this latter work may be best understood from a few of the official figures of the col lege There were last year some thirty farmers institutes held in various sec tions of Alabama at which addresses were made and discussions were had upon farm subjects by men who were experts in those subjects. The results of the experiments made at the sta- ton have been laid before the farmers of the State in the form of bulletins of
 
 out from the college. These bulletins are sent to a mailing list of 14.OO0.
 The Experiment Station farm is located on 300 acres q half mile south of the college grounds The land IS very poor. A comment upon the native poverty of the soil brought forth the remark from Professor Duggar:
 Well, 1t has one advantage. What will grow here will grow on any other lands of Alabama.
 The lands are hilly, some sandy. some stiff and all more or less covered oy a sort of flint rock. In the race ol such difficulties what has been aecoinI plished on the unpromising lands ol the college farm speaks eloquently TOT the intelligence and Industry Of those who have the experiment work m charge. -,- offers diverse and puzzling questions Investigations which settle the ordl- nary farming questions, are unuer taken here side by side with the work ing out of new and untried problems.
 The work was undertaken some seventeen years ago under great difh- culties At that time there were not more than half dozen reliable te%i books on agriculture published in all the United States. It is said that there was not at that time slngle reliable agricultural text book TOT tht Southern farmer or student. The eN- pertinent Station had to work from the ground up. -.
 half q hundred agricultural eXperl- ments are at all time being tried, oD- served and noted. There are TOT m stance experiments to ascertain IT certain brand of cotton, widely ad- vertised throughout the South is all that Is claimed for it or merely an olu variety under a new name, the enec' of every sort of fertilizer on cotton experiments in corn showing. whether 1t is better to cut the corn. to gather 1t or to let it remain on the stalk, tne growing of all manner for forage plants -these are in brief a few of the ques- tions that the experiment station tarh engages in yearly in settling.
 some of the Experiments.
 One of the most valuable of the 1Sl bulletins sent out from the station farm had to do with the results or sol inoculation as tried in Alabama. IhIs IhlI eJperiInent was tried with specla reference to leguminous plants such as 1 inc COW pea and clover. The plant sEEiah fa.ilAd Wara found to be thos'