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cultural industry of the United States as may in each case be 

 deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions 

 and needs of the respective states or territories." 



The work that the Experiment Station can undertake from 

 the A'dams Act fund is more restricted and can "be applied 

 only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting original 

 researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural 

 industry of the United States, having due regard to the vary- 

 ing conditions and needs of the respective states and territories." 



Investigations. 



T'he Station continues to restrict its work to a few important 

 lines, believing that it is better for the agriculture of the State 

 to study thoroughly a few problems than -to spread over the 

 w'hole field of agricultural science. It has continued to improve 

 its facilities and segregate its work in such a way as to make 

 it an effective agency for research in agriculture. Prominent 

 among the lines of investigation are studies upon the food of 

 man and animals, the diseases of plants and animals,, breeding 

 of plants and animals, orchard and field experiments, poultry 

 investigations, and entomological research. 



Inspections. 



The inspection of food and drugs, the inspection of fertilizers, 

 the inspection of concentrated commercial feeding stufifs, the 

 inspection of agricultural seeds, the inspection of fungicides and 

 insecticides and the testing of the graduated glassware used 

 in creameries, are entrusted to the Station through its director, 

 who is responsible for the execution of t'he public laws relat- 

 ing to these matters. The cost of the inspections is borne by 

 fees and by a state appropriation, and the examination of 

 chemical glassware by a charge for calibration. 



Offices ani) Lahora'i'oruvs. 



The officers, laboratories and i)oultry jilant of the Maine Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station are at tJK' University of Maine, 

 Orono. Orono is the freight, ex])re.ss, jxist, telegraph and tele- 

 phone address for the offices and laboratorio. 



