IV MAINE STATE COLLEGE 



The meetiDgs of the Station Council as newly constituted have 

 been characterized by a cordiality and unanimity that are very 

 encouraging, and that are a prophecy of future success. 



Station Equipment. 



The most important addition to the Station appliances during 

 the past year has been the equipment of a barn in a manner 

 especially adapted to experimental feeding. The barn con- 

 tains a fine basement, the floor of which is solid ledge, which 

 is to be used for storage of manure, pens for swine, &c. 

 The south side of the barn contains a hospital, stalls for cows 

 and for young stock and three stalls for horses. Midway between 

 two apartments devoted to stalls are scales set in the floor in a 

 manner admirably adapted to the weighing of animals. On the" 

 other side of the barn is a silo, a space for the storage of imple- 

 ments, stalls for the weighed rations of hay, room for the storage 

 of the samples of grain and other crops, a well arranged granary 

 and an appartment fitted up for the performance of digestion 

 experiments. These rooms are all sheathed in a neat manner and 

 the entire arrangement seems likely to prove very convenient and 

 satisfactory. 



A fairly complete outfit of bacteriological apparatus has been 

 purchased for Dr. Russell, and has been placed in the new Station 

 building. Important additions have been made to the meteoro- 

 logical apparatus also. The Station building has within the year 

 been supplied with river water in place of the insufficient supply 

 .previously available. The College is certain to erect a greenhouse 

 in 1890, as the needed funds have already been appropriated by 

 the State for that purpose. This will make it possible to increase 

 the work done in the interests of horticulture. 

 The Station Wokk. 



It was frequently remarked through the columns of the Agri- 

 cultural press at the time experiment stations were being organized 

 under the Hatch Act, that these stations should deal largely with 

 agricultural problems through the actual practice of agriculture, 

 or, in other words, it was demanded by certain writers that they 

 should do a large amount of farming. While this view of the 

 matter is likely to appeal strongly to popular favor, it is doubtful 

 whether it is a correct view. 



The conditions surrounding the practice of agriculture differ 

 with every state, with every township, and almost with every farm. 



