MARYLAND. Ill 



Bulletin 7*2, pp. 8. — Fertilizer Inspection. — Analyses of 136 samples 

 of commercial fertilizers, with a summary of the chief provisions of 

 the State fertilizer law. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The work of the Maine Station has been developed along both prac- 

 tical and scientific lines, and while much of it is of purely local value, 

 much also, especially the feeding- experiments and nutrition investiga- 

 tions, is of general interest. The cooperative work with farmers, 

 investigations with blueberries, feeding, breeding, and fertilizer 

 experiments, and the investigations with poultry, potatoes, and fruit 

 are all of such vital interest locally that they are bringing the station 

 into closer relations with the farmers of the State. The work with 

 poultry is well planned and vigorously conducted, but the breeding 

 problems have developed some unexpected complexities, and it seems 

 necessary to study the causes of degeneration as well as of improve- 

 ment of breeds. 



Farmers' institutes were held by the State board of agriculture at 

 about 90 different places during the year, and members of the station 

 staff assisted at 50 of these. The inspection service performed by the 

 station includes the testing of fertilizers, seeds, feeding stuffs, and 

 creamery glassware, and is fully supported by State funds. The sta- 

 tion has begun the publication of press bulletins which are quite gen- 

 erally used by the newspapers of the State, and the advisability of 

 introducing correspondence courses, through the college, is being con- 

 sidered. 



MARYLAND. , 



Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, College Park. 



GOVERNING BOARD. 



Board of Trustees — Agricultural Committee: Gov. John W. Smith, Annapolis; 

 Charles H. Stanley, Laurel; Charles W. Slagle, Baltimore; David Seibert, Clear- 

 spring; Murray Vandiver, Havre de Grace; W. Scott VVhiteford, Whiteford; Allen 

 Dodge, Washington, D. C. 



STATION STAFF. 



R. W. Silvester, President of the College. 



Harry J. Patterson, B. S., Dir.; Chem. Thos. M. Price, M. S., Asst. Chem. 



James S. Robinson, Hort. E. P. Sandsten, M. S., Assoc. Hort. and State 



A. L. Quaintance, M. S., Ent. Hort. Inspector. 



Samuel S. Buckley, D. V. S., Vet. C. F. Doane, M. 8,, Agr., Dairy Husb. and 



W. T. L. Taliaferro, M. A., Agr. Bad. 



J. B. S. Norton, M. 8., Bot. and Veg. Path. F. H. Blodgett, B. S., Asst. Plant Path, and 



E. O. Garner, Supt. Farm and Recorder Bot. 



of Expts. Jos. R. Owens, M. D., Treas. 



Ralph I. Smith, B. S., Asst. Ent. B. H. Gibbs, Clerk. 



