REPORT OF DIRECTOR. 



To the Board of Managers of the Maine Fertilizer Control and 

 Agricultural Experiment Station : 



Gentlemen : — The report herewith subraittefl presents the work of 

 the Station for the year beginning July 1st, 1886, and ending June 

 30th, 1887. 



The subject matter of the report embraces the following : 



1. Fertilizers. 



(a) Inspection of Fertilizers. 



(6) Analyses of Miscellaneous Fertilizing Materials. 



(0 Experiments With Fertilizers- {^^^fgS^,',^^";;^ 



(d) Inquiries Concerning Fertilizers. 



2. Foods. 



(a) Analyses of Cattle Foods. 



(&) Determination of the Digestibility of Various Cattle Foods. 



(c) Feeding Experiments With Various Kinds ( For milk and butter. 



and Quantities of Foods — ( For growth. 



(d) Inquiries Concerning Cattle Foods. 



3. Tests of Varieties of Grain and Potatoes. 



4. Experiments in Raising Cream. 



5. Miscellaneous. 



6. Analytical and Experimental Methods. 



7. Licenses Issued, and Laws. 



It is believed that the work undertaken will commend itself to 

 farmers as being practical, and as calculated to throw needed light 

 upon questions that are important in farm practice. Some of the 

 experiments have furnished results that should be directly useful and 

 suggestive to the stock-grower and dairyman, and certainlv the fig- 

 ures reached by the inspection of commercial fertilizers for which 



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