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The work of the Utah station has been considerably broadened by 

 the aid of State appropriations, and in some of its departments is 

 quite actively pursued. 



VERMONT. 

 Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington. 

 Department of University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. 



J. L. Hills, Sc. D., Director. 



The affairs of the Vermont station, as in the previous year, were 

 marked by numerous changes in the station staff. No changes were 

 made in the equipment and endowment of this station during the 

 year. 



Work on some of the Adams-fund projects undertaken by the sta- 

 tion was pursued actively, while other investigations of this class, 

 owing to nuuierous changes in the staff during the last two years, 

 were held in abeyance. In studying the forcing of plants with car- 

 bon dioxid, special attention was given to radishes and lettuce. Ex- 

 periments on the relation of size of seed to the future plant Avere con- 

 tinued in the field with a number of horticultural crops, and records 

 were kept of the resulting plants with regard to flowering, fruiting 

 habits, quality and quantity of product, and similar points. The 

 l^roject on the breeding of carnations was practically completed and 

 the results made ready for publication. The study of disease re- 

 sistance of potatoes was continued in cooperation with this depart- 

 ment. The results secured in studying anesthesia of dormant plants 

 were published and the project was closed. The results thus far 

 secured in the investigation on the general principles involved in the 

 j)roduction of double-flowering plants were also prepared to be pub- 

 lished. 



The data collected in connection with the work on the damping off 

 of coniferous seedlings, together with the work done by Prof. L. K. 

 Jones on the potato-disease project, were prepared for publication. 

 The project on the micro-organisms of maple sap and sirup was con- 

 tinued and last year's results were published. A relatively large 

 amount of work was done on the storage of sugars and other car- 

 bohydrates in the maple. Different parts of the tree were analj^zed 

 for the determination of sucrose, moisture, sugar, starch, hemicellu- 

 loses, and ash. A large amount of data and definite results were se- 

 cured in this study. 



Experiments on the nutritive value of milk were conducted with 

 pigs of different breeds, being fed milk containing different 

 amounts of fat. Experiments with milk homogenized with corn oil 

 were under way. Apparently there is a difference in fat consistency 



