HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. ~- 



nitrogen by leguminous plants. The work of the station in 

 this line has done much to increase our knowledge of this 

 important subject. Some of the investigations undertaken 

 by the station in its early years were continued only a short 

 time, while others have been continued year after year ever 

 since they were first undertaken. The principal inquiries 

 now in progress at the station have to do with the nutrition 

 of plants, animals, and man, and with the bacteriology of the 

 dairy. 



We are proud of what the Storrs Station with its limited 

 income has accomplished in the thirteen years of its existence. 

 It has continually recognized a fact that is coming more and 

 more to be understood by its friends in Connecticut, that, 

 after all, the inquiry which on the surface appears to be the 

 least practical, is actually the most useful. The station, 

 therefore, is endeavoring to contribute its share toward 

 the discovery of the laws which goVern right practice in 

 agriculture. Here will be the most lasting benefit to accrue 

 from its work. 



At the same time the direct application of the results of 

 scientific research to farming is not forgotten. This is ac- 

 complished, in a large measure, by cooperative experiments 

 with practical farmers. Experiments of this nature relating 

 to the feeding of sheep and dairy cattle, the use of commer- 

 cial fertilizers, and of leguminous crops for green manuring, 

 supplemented by. investigations in similar directions carried 

 out at the station, have done much to improve the practice 

 of farmers in the State along the line in which they have 

 been conducted. 



The investigations on dairy bacteriology have been an 

 important factor in bringing about changes in the handling 

 and care of milk and manufacture of dairy products that have 

 resulted in raising the general grade of the products and giv- 

 ing them a more uniform quality. 



The investigations on the food and nutrition of man are 

 of particular importance to the farmer as a producer of food, 



