8 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing 

 directly on the agricultural 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." 



INSPECTIONS. 



In accepting the provisions of the Act of Congress, the Maine 

 Legislature withdrew the State appropriation for the mainte- 

 nance of the Station, and thereby did away with the original 

 purpose of the Station so far as it related to the "protection from 

 frauds in commercial fertilizers, and from adulterations in foods, 

 feeds and seeds." In place of this, special laws regulating the 

 sale of commercial fertilizers, concentrated commercial feeding 

 stuffs and agricultural seeds, and the inspection of chemical 

 glass-ware used by creameries, have been enacted, and their 

 execution entrusted to the Director of the Station. 



The Station officers take pains to obtain for analysis samples 

 of all commercial fertilizers and concentrated commercial feed- 

 ing stuffs coming under the law, but the organized co-opera- 

 tion of farmers is essential for the full and timely protection of 

 their interests. Granges and other organizations can render 

 efficient aid by sending, early in the season, samples taken from 

 stock in the market and drawn in accordance with the Station 

 directions for sampling. 



THE AIM OF THE STATION. 



Every citizen of IMaine, concerned in agriculture, farmer, 

 manufacturer, or dealer, has the right to apply to the Station 

 for any assistance that comes within its province. It is the 

 wish of the Trustees and Station Council that the Station be as 

 widely useful as its resources will permit. 



In addition to its work of investigation, the Station is pre- 

 pared to make chemical analyses of fertilizers, feeding stuffs, 

 dairy products and other agricultural materials ; to test seeds 

 and creamery glass-ware ; to identify grasses, weeds, injurious 

 fungi and insects, etc. ; and to give information on agricultural 

 matters of interest and advantage to the citizens of the State. 



