THE NEW EARTH 



composition and digestibility of the different 

 kinds of foods for domestic animals ; the scien- 

 tific and economic questions involved in the 

 production of butter and cheese ; and such other 

 researches or experiments bearing directly on 

 the agricultural industry of the United States 

 as may, in each case, be desirable, having due 

 regard to the varying conditions and needs of 

 the respective states and territories." 



Along with this general provision it was 

 laid down that the stations should issue full 

 and detailed bulletins of their work, in addi- 

 tion to their annual reports, a bulletin at least 

 once in three months, one copy to be sent to 

 each newspaper in the state and copies to all 

 those actually engaged in farming who should 

 make request. These bulletins contain a mass 

 of valuable information, practical in its char- 

 acter and intended to aid the farmer, dairy- 

 man, horticulturist, gardener — all who gain 

 their living from the earth — in solving the 

 many problems which come up in the progress 

 of their work. The object is so to present the 

 new discoveries that the average man may get 

 hold of the facts easily. In some cases two 

 sets of bulletins are issued, — one brief and in 



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