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Value of tnip Inutorns. 



Cause of " pimply " potatoes. 

 Auhnal pnnluction. 



Feeding; experiment with ]>i};s. 



Comparison of rations eompounded from unlike sources. 



Sources of milk fat. 



Study of eheese-fai'tory milk. 



Study of dairy breeds. 

 Poultry cultuir. 



Value of selection in breeding poultry. 



Feediufj experiment with chicks. 



Feeding experiment with laying hens. 



Source of lime to growing ehicks. 



Relative value of vegetable aud animal foods. 

 Chemical loork. 



Analysis of fertilizers. 



Analysis connected with various investigations. 

 The foregoing seems to be a large number of subjects to have 

 under investigation at one time, and perhaps it is too large and 

 should be diminished, though the strong tendency is to increase 

 it. New problems are constantly being urged upon the Station 

 by its constituency, and it is much more easy to give favorable 

 attention to such requests than to put them one side. Besides, 

 the oflicers of the Station do not feel quite sure that they will 

 escape vigorous criticism if they contine their investigations to a 

 few subjects ai\d study them exhaustively, although undoubtedly 

 this is the right course to follow. We have now too many half 

 answered questions, and greater ultinuite good would result if 

 the study of a less number of the most important problems could 

 be continued to a definite solution. Past experience justifies 

 this policy, and the time will come when public sentiment will 

 more fully sustain its adoption by American stations. 



Tancty tests. — Probably no American station is so largely en- 

 gaged in a study of varieties, chiefiy fruits, as is this one, and 

 consequently its otficers are specially interested in the adverse 

 criticisms which occasionally appear concerning what is known 



