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It has been accepted for inclusion in Annual Report by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SEP 22 1948 THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION FIFTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 1946 Stocker calves enjoying and gaining weight and thrift on a winter pasture of crimson clover and oats at the Knoxville Station. KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION KNOXVILLE JAMES D. HOSKINS, President Emeritus C. E. BREHM, Acting President AGRICULTURAL COM M ITTEE W. P. COOPER 1. B. TIGRETT CLYDE B. AUSTIN W. P. RIDLEY JAMES T. GRANBERY O. E. VAN CLEAVE, Commissioner of Agriculture STATION OFFICERS ADMINISTRATION ENGINEERING C. A. MOOERS, Director Emeritus C. E. BREHM, Director M. A. SHARP, Agricultural Engineer F. S. CHANCE, Vice Director H. A. ARNOLD, Assoc. Agr. Engineer A. L. KENNEDY, Assoc. Agr. Engineer E. G. FRIZZZELL, Associate Secretary J. N. ODOM, Gen. Supt. of Farms ARTHUR H. MORGAN, Mech. Engineer G. M. PETERSON, Assoc. Agr. Engineer AGRONOMY ERIC WINTERS, Agronomist ENTOMOLOGY J. J. BIRD, Associate Agronomist S. MARCOVITCH, Entomologist E. L. BOHANAN, Asst. Agron., Crossville W. W. STANLEY, Assoc. Entomologist A. G. BURG, Asst. Agronomist HENRY CUMMINS, Farm Supt., Crossville FORESTRY W. A. CHRIESMAN, Plot Assistant R. F. KROODSMA, Forester, Greenevill J. G. FAULKNER, Plot Assistant LLOYD FORD, Asst. in For., Greenevill N. 1. HANCOCK, Assoc. Agronomist O. H. LONG, Asst. Agronomist HOME ECONOMICS R. L. LONG, Plot Assistant, Jackson FLORENCE L. MacLEOD, Home Economi J. R. MEYER, Assoc. Agronomist DOROTHY E. WILLIAMS, Nutrition Che WEBSTER PENDERGRASS, Asst. Agron. MARY L. DODDS, Assoc. Home Economi F. D. RICHEY,' Assoc. Agron. (Corn Breed.) LOYCE L. DUNN, Asst. Home Economist J. K. UNDERWOOD, Assoc. Agronomist BERNADINE MEYER, Assoc. Home Eco JOHN B. WASHKO, Assoc. Agronomist ELISE MORRELL, Asst. Nutrition Chern. W. O. WHITTLE, Asst. in Agronomy ECHO PRICE, Asst. Home Economist ANIMAL HUSBANDRY HORTICUL TURE J. C. MILLER, Animal Husbandman C. E. WYLIE, Dairy Husbandman BROOKS D. DRAIN, Horticulturist H. R. DUNCAN, Assoc. Animal Husb. T. R. GILMORE, Assoc. Hort., Crossville M. C. HERVEY, Assoc. Animal Husb. R. H. HANCHEY, Asst. Hort., Jackson S. A, HINTON, Asst. Dairy Husb. TROY H. JONES, Asst. Horticulturist B. J. McSPADDEN, Poultry Husb. ARTHUR MEYER, Asst. Horticulturist J. T. MILES, Dairy Herdsman JOAN W. ODELL, Asst. Horticulturist HOMER PATRICK, Nutritionist N. D. PEACOCK, Assoc. Horticulturist DENNIS SIKES, Veterinarian C. R. SPANGLER, Asst. in Horticulture A. C. TODD, Parasitologist A. B. STRAND, Assoc. Hort., Dandridge CHEMISTRY INFORMATION W. H. MacINTIRE, Soil Chemist A. J. SIMS, Head of Department G. A. SHUEY, General Chemist F. H. BROOME, Editor and Secretary MILDRED FOSTER, Asst. Gen. Chemist SARAH C. CURRELL, Librarian MARY K. GOOD, Asst. Gen. Chemist JANE WHITTLE, Asst. Librarian KATHLEEN M. McCOOK, Asst. Gen. Chem. BROOKS ROBINSON, Asst. Soil Chemist PHYSICS K. B. SANDERS, Assoc. General Chemist K. L. HERTEL, Physicist W. M. SHAW. Assoc. Soil Chemist C. J. CRAVEN, Assoc. Physicist S. H. WINTERBERG, Assoc. in Soil Chem. JOHN DEANS, Instrument Maker ADDIE BULE WISE, Asst. Gen. Chemist REBA LAWSON, Asst. in Physics J. B. YOUNG, Asst. Soil Chemist RA Y MINK, Asst. in Physics ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY PLANT PATHOLOGY C. E. ALLRED, Agricultural Economist C. D. SHERBAKOI<'F, Plant Pathologist H. J. BONSER, Assoc. Agr. Economist J. O. ANDES, Assoc. Plant Pathologist A. H. CHAMBERS," Asst. Agr. Economist E. S. BROWN, Asst. in Plant Pathology B. H. LUEBKE, Assoc. Agr. Economist J. M. EPPS, Asst. in Plant Path., Jackson C. C. MANTLE, Asst. Agr. Economist E. L. FELIX, Assoc. Plant Pathologist F. N. MASTERS, Asst. Agr. Economist DENNIS H. LATHAM, Assoc. Plant W. P. RANNEY, Assoc. Agr. Economist Pathologist, Springfield BEN D. RASKOPF, Assoc. Agr. Economist T. L. SENN,' Asst. Plant Pathologist SUBSTATIONS LESTER WEAKLEY, Assistant, Highland Rim Experiment Station, Springfield. L. R. NEEL, Superintegdent, Middle Tennessee Experiment Station, Columbia. JOHN A. EWING, Asst. Supt. Middle Tennessee Experiment Station, Columbia. JOHN A. ODOM. Acting Supt., Plateau Experiment Station, Crossville. J. L. VANDIVER,l Assistant Agronomist, Tobacco Experiment Station, Greeneville. B. P. HAZLEWOOD, Superintendent, West Tennessee Experiment Station, Jackson. "Cooperative with U. S. Department of Agricuture. 'On leave. Bulletins of this Station will be mai led free to any farmer in the State. tural Experiment Station, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenne •• ee. CONTENTS Page Financial Statement 4 Introduction _ 5 Agronomy _ 6 General 6 Uniform variety trials 8 Fertilizer investigations ------ 12 Crop improvement 15 18 Corn breeding--- Grass breeding 21 State soil survey ----- 23 Fiber research 23 Agricultural Engineering 24 Farm machinery and equipment _ 24 __________________29 Irrigation ------ __32 Strawberry capper development ---- ___________34 Oil-seeds processing ------ 37 Animal Husbandry At Knoxville Station --- 37 At West Tennessee Station 38 At Mineral-Deficiency Farm 40 At Tobacco Experiment Station 43 __45 At Middle Tennessee Station ---- Animal feed supplements - 49 Irrigated pastures for dairy cows 53 Lespedeza hay for dairy cows - 54 Wintering dairy heifers on legume hay _ ___54 Parasi tology---- ---------- 55 Chemistry 59 Soils and fertilizers-- 59 General ------ 74 Economics and Sociology ------------ 81 Forest and Farm Economic Survey __ 87 Entomology ---------- 90 Home Economics----- 96 'Horticulture ---- 97 At Knoxville Station -- 98 _________104 At Clarksville _______104 At West Tennessee Station --- __108 At Plateau Station --- In Douglas Reservoir Area 109 Plant Pathology - 112 Library _ 116 ____117 Middle Tennessee Experiment Station West Tennessee Experiment Station ---- _______123 ____125 Tobacco Experiment Station - Highland Rim Experiment Station 127 Plateau Experiment Station ------------ _132 Changes in Staff ---- __133 Publications --- _134 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Knoxville, Tennessee, January 1, 1947 To His Excellency, Jim McCord, Governor of Tennessee. Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith, on behalf of the Board of Trustees of The University of Tennessee, a report of the work and €xpenditures of the Agricultural Experiment Station for the year 1946. This report is submitted in accordance with the law requiring that the Board having direction of the Experiment Station shall annually submit to the Governor of the State a report of its op'2rations and expenses. Very respectfully, C. E. BREHM. Acting President FINANCIAL STATEMENT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION In account with The United States Appropriations under the Hatch, Adams, Purnell, and Bankhead-Jones Acts, and Non-Federal Funds, 1945-46 . .. Federal Funds Non- I Bankhead- I Federal Hatch Adams Purne.Jl... Jones Funds Receipts • From United States Treasurer. $15,000.00 $15,000.00 $60,000.00 $83,564.08 I From other sources .............. .... ............. .. $205,403.06 Expenditures Personal services . 13,062.36 13,602.33 54,550.39 65,620.15 108,014.22 Travel 0.00 0.00 453.24 1,499.56 Transp~~tat;~";·~fthi,,;g~·.···· 1,835.73 102.08 43.25 109.67 510.97 1,512.28 Communication service ....... 257.58 0.00 30.57 48.87 1,112.40 Rents and utility services 28.2n 14.65 278.36 178.80 2,184.54 Printing and binding .. 0.00 0.00 0.00 162.94 2.991.29 Other contractual services 159.40 107.60 479.88 710.87 8,699.60 Supplies and rna terials 742.56 635.75 2.558.85 10,260.37 43,981.41 Equipment 596.42 1,538.54 2,747.99 21,832.79 Lands and structures 0.00 0.00 1,823.56 13,238.80 Total .. •··••.··•·••••·•·••••••·.·1 $15,::~:~~ $15,000.00 $60,000:00' $83,564~ $205,403.06 - FIFTY - NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOR 1946 INTRODUCTION F. S. Chance, Vice Director Agriculture is moving forward in Tennessee along with general industrial expansion. Weather conditions this year throughout the State were about normal for crop production, and the farmers came through with a record corn yield of 30 bush·elsper acre. This is an indication that the research work on corn breeding, fertilization, and cultivation is beginning to pay big dividends. The 30-bushel yield is still below a reasonable goal, but is an increase of more than 20 percent over yields of twenty years ago. This represents real progress when we take into account the fact that during the Ipast decade many thousands of acres of the State's best bottom