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Experiment Stations. Besides the Department at 

 Washington, every state has experiment stations 

 where learned men are making tests of crops, ani- 

 mals, and whatever the farmers of that particular 

 state may wish to know. These experiment stations 

 are also kept up with tax money, and the farmers 



Fig. 110. College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin. 



have a right to the knowledge and discoveries made 

 here. Booklets from the experiment stations are 

 mailed free to any one engaged in farming. Should 

 a disease of animals or plants suddenly break out 

 in some community, a man will be sent upon request 

 from the experin;ent station to advise and show the 

 farmers how to fight the trouble. The farmers of 

 Dakota have gained ten millions of dollars through 

 the secrets learned at the experiment station about 

 grain. We have learned that the Babcock test has 



