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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
which is going on at our Experiment Station, and we think our readers 
will be interested in a brief account of the work which we find in pro- ) Me 
gress there and which will well repay one for a day or two spent ab i 
the Station. 
The work now in charge of the first sautatait is as follows: 
First. Experiments with swine.—So soon as enough skim milk, ete., 
is available, it is expected to conduct the pig-feeding in connection ~ 
with the dairy cattle experiments, and comparison of the different 
breeds of swine will be made. A 
For the present the experiments are confined principally to feeding 
of various coarse foods that have been used and recommended for 
swine, e. g., corn ensilage, sorghum, prickly comfrey, beets, clover 
and clover ensilage, ete. 
Second. Experiments with pouliry.— Feeding experiments with rations 
more and less nitrogenous have been made with young and mature 
laying stock, and these experiments extend always throughout the 
whole laying season, some of both large and small ais being 
used. 
Feeding experiments are being made, and have been, with capons 
and cockerels. ‘i 
Experiments have been made with “home-made” and inexpensive 
incubators and brooders, and it is expected to continue them. 
Preparations are now nearly completed for breeding experiments 
with tested individuals of several breeds. 
Considerable chemical work has been done, and experiments are 
now (although temporarily interrupted) in progress to answer the 
question definitely whether inorganic material, as stone, oyster shells, 
etc., can supply lime for the egg shell. 
Experiments to ascertain the cost of production and value of pro-- 
duct, in rearing chicks of different market breeds from the shell, under “i 
different foods and methods of hatching and brooding, are expected 
to be undertaken. 
Third. Soil experiments.— The laboratory work on soils has been for 
the present discontinued, but only from pressure of more immediately 
necessary work. 
Tn the field, application of several cheap chemicals has been rmaden 
viz.: sulphate of soda, sulphate of lime, sulphate of magnesia, sulphate 
of iron, carbonate of lime, common salt. The effect on the crop.and — 
soil is studied. These have only been applied one season, but it is 
intended to repeat the application several years on the same strips of — 
soil under different crops. 
Fourth. The investigation, selection and acclimatizing of sorghums 
Of the 200 or 300 samples of seed, Pecaaoiee | 150 or more v i 
