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 field work among farmers; they organize cow-testing and grain-growing associations; they furnish assistance in planning and creating farm buildings; they hold farmers' meetings; they are the logical centres from which the agricultural field work service, carried on by the State College of Agriculture, radiates."

The following is a list of some of the work and other activities of the agricultural school of the university:—

It has bred pedigree strains of barley, oats and wheat, which have increased the grain crop of the state millions of dollars. These varieties won the world's championship, 1910-1911, at the national corn show.

It has produced a kind of corn which can be grown in the northern part of the state.

It has produced grasses and legumes which formerly could not be bred in the state.

It has made extensive investigations in the sugar beets in relation to the development of that industry in the state.

It has found remedies for noxious weeds.

It has maintained trial orchards in the northern part of the state, so that where formerly very little fruit existed, now all kinds of fruit are growing.

It has discovered new methods of managing marsh soils.

It has worked out new methods of cranberry culture, increasing the product of cranberries from one to ten barrels per acre to seventy to eighty barrels per acre.