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HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. 



horticultural, chemical, physiological, and botanical journals 

 and the essential books of reference on these subjects, num- 

 bering over 2,000 bound volumes, exclusive of pamphlets and 

 station publications. Some of the books are quite rare and 

 costly. The private libraries of the director, advising chem- 

 ist, and botanist contain sets of other journals and many older 

 works of reference, which, taken with the station library, very 

 fully represent the useful literature of agriculture and the re- 

 lated natural sciences. While the station has no official or 

 business connection with Yale University, the university 

 library, numbering 266,000 volumes and 100,000 pamphlets; 

 the special technical library of the Sheffield Scientific School, 

 of about 5,000 volumes, and the special chemical libraries of 

 the same school and of the other university laboratories are 

 readily accessible to members of the station staff. The pri- 

 vate libraries of many specialists connected with Yale Uni- 

 versity can also be consulted. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The station has, strictly speaking, no control duties. It 

 is required to examine and report upon the composition of 

 foods and fertilizers, but no prosecutions for violations of the 

 laws are made by the station or its officers. The station is 

 authorized to take samples of any lot or package of commer- 

 cial fertilizer which may be in the possession of any dealer, 

 and is required by statute to analyze annually at least one 

 sample of every brand of commercial fertilizers sold in the 

 State, to publish in its reports the results of such analyses, 

 and to send at least two copies of its bulletins to every post- 

 office in the State. 



The station is required by statute " at such times and 

 places and to such extent as it may determine " to examine 

 food products, which are defined by the statute as " anything 

 used as food or drink by men, horses, or cattle." Any cases 

 of adulteration must be reported to the dairy commissioner, 

 who is charged with bringing prosecutions. The station 



