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prize. Even if the managers of the show would have admitted 

 the College which could have prepared the exhihit to compete 

 and even supposing it had won, it would have been absolutely- 

 wrong for fruit produced by the use of public money to have 

 competed against private efforts and capital. 



The College may teach by demonstration and by exhibition. 

 The Station can lawfully do neither. The College cannot mor- 

 ally compete for prizes against private exhibits. To some it 

 seems that if a thing is desirable for the good of Maine's 

 agriculture, it is the province of the Station to do it. Agri- 

 cultural writers ha\e pointed out many things that they think, 

 for instance, the Station could do at Highmoor Farm, with- 

 out considering the limitations advisedly put upon the Station's 

 activities by both State and National law. 



WORK OE INSPECTION. 



While the work for which the Experiment Station was 

 primarily established is that of investigation it has been found 

 much more convenient for the State, because of the Station 

 laboratory facilities, to make the Director of the Station the 

 executive of^cer of the laws regulating the sale of agricultural 

 seeds, commercial feeding stuffs, commercial fertilizers, drugs, 

 foods, fungicides and insecticides, as well as calibrating the 

 creamery glassware used in the State. 



This work is distinctly organized from that of investigation 

 and the funds for investigation are in no wise used for inspec- 

 tion work. Part of the time of tlie Director and two other 

 members of the office force, the whole time of four chemists 

 and three inspectors, are given to the work of inspection. 

 Hundreds of business places and manufactories in the State 

 are visited during the year by the inspectors and thousands of 

 analyses are made in the laboratories. The results of the in- 

 spection for 191 1 were published in Official Inspections 29 to 

 35' aggregating 136 pages. They are only thus briefly referred 

 to here as they are of only fleeting interest. 



DISSEMINATION OE INEORMATION. 



It is not the function of the Station to disseminate general 

 agricultural or other information. That is for the College 



