THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS 



the station. Millions of dollars in value have 

 been added to the wealth of this state by rea- 

 son of the work of its Experiment Station. The 

 details of how it was accomplished may be 

 had by others simply for the asking. Another 

 station gives out, free of all cost, the result of 

 the investigations of one of its staff, and the 

 whole dairy industry of the world is changed. 

 In the invention of the Babcock test for but- 

 ter-fat, Dr. S. M. Babcock, for whom the test 

 is named, of the Wisconsin station, provided 

 a simple, economical and absolute test for the 

 ascertaining of the amount of butter-fat in 

 milk, considered elsewhere more in detail. 

 The result has been that many millions of 

 dollars have been added to the wealth of the 

 people, while the test has been adopted over 

 the entire civilized world. The stations of vari- 

 ous states in wheat - growing regions have 

 added many other millions to the wealth of 

 the states by reason of the creation of new 

 wheats superior to old ones from every point 

 of view, while corn has been bred for any defi- 

 nite purpose and largely increased in yield. 

 Large sums have been saved in other states 

 through the introduction by the stations of 



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