HISTORICAL NOTES. vH 



HISTORICAL NOTES FOR 1905. 



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FOOD AND SEED LEGISEATION. 



The legislature of 1905 passed a pure food law and supple- 

 mented the law regulating- the sale of agricultural seeds. The 

 director of the Station is the executive officer of both of these 

 controls. The details of the food legislation is given on pages 

 JJ and following of this report. A bulletin on seed inspection 

 is in preparation and will be published early in 1906. 



CHANGES OF STAFF. 



Mr. S. C. Dinsmore resigned as assistant chemist in June, 

 1905, to accept an appointment with the Nevada Experiment 

 Station. Mr. Lewis I. Nurenburg, B. S., Harvard, 1905, has 

 been appointed in his place. Miss Bessie G. Leeds, B. A., 

 University of Minnesota, 1905, was appointed September i as 

 a general assistant. Miss Leeds will do the photographic work 

 of the Station and will assist in the analyses of foods and seeds. 



THE INCUBATOR HOUSE. 



The Station, as described on pages 105 and following of this 

 report, is unusually well equipped along the lines of poultry 

 investigation, with the exception that the rooms used for incu- 

 bation work were unsatisfactory. An incubator house 31x31 

 feet, was erected in the fall of 1905. The building is one story 

 in height with a good attic, and airy basement. The basement 

 is used for the incubators and is supplied with 18 machines 

 having a capacity of 6480 eggs. Two flues provide ample ven- 

 tilation. The remainder of the building is finished as a tene- 

 ment for the poultry man. 



