90 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Reports of the receipts and exiDenditures for the United States 

 funds have been rendered in accordance with the schechiles pre- 

 scribed by this Department and have been approved. 



The Connecticut State Station is better equipped than ever before 

 for thorough investigations in the lines in which it has undertaken 

 work, and is thus in a position to make its work of greater usefuhiess 

 to the agriculture of the State. 



'to' 



Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, Storrff." 



Department of the Coniiecticut Agricultural College. 

 Jj. A. Clinton, M. S., Director. 



The policy of the Connecticut Storrs Station to concentrate its 

 Avork along a few lines has been continued. Particular attention has 

 been given to the poultry investigations. A wooden brooder outfit, 

 holding 300 chickens, has recenth' been built at a cost of about $75. 

 This will be comjiared with a more substantial house built at a cost 

 of over $300. A poultry house is also being built for work in breed- 

 ing. In experiments thus far a wooden house holding about 25 

 hens and costing about $25 has proved best. The investigations with 

 pigeons and the production of squabs have been brought to a close. 



The station has inclosed about 30 acres of land with woven-wire 

 fence and connected the pasture with the college water system. This 

 equipment is being utilized for experiments in sheep raising. A flock 

 of 25 pure-bred Shropshires has been purchased by the station, and 

 the adaptability of sheep breeding and feeding to New Eifgland Avill 

 be studied. 



The soft-cheese investigations in cooperation with the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry have been continued. The manufacture of Camem- 

 bert cheese has been ])nt upon a working basis, and problems in 

 the making of Rocpiefort cheese are now being taken uj). The State 

 appropriation for work on the nutrition of man has been used for 

 this puri)()se, and the investigations at ISfiddlotown in coopei-at ion 

 with this OfKce have l)een discontinued. 



Some extension work is being done b}' the station, chiefly through 

 the farmers' institutes and other farmers' organizations. A numbei' 

 of changes in the personnel have recently taken phu-e, notably ihe 

 resignations of the dairvnian. chemist, and bacteriologist. ^^'. M. 

 Esten has been |)lac(Ml in charge of the work in bacteriology and 

 C. D. Jarvis in horticulture. 



Pending final action by tlic legislature at its next session the go\- 

 ernor dixided the Adams fiiiKl axailable foi' l'.H)('> e(|ually between 

 the Storrs and State stations. 



" Telegr;i|)li luldress, slurrs via WilliiiKiiific: railroad station, express, and 

 Irciixlit .■ulilress. F.HfiU riU<-. 



