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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 Adams Act fund is more restricted and can "be apphed 

 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. 



The 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 

 whole field of agricultural science. It has continued to improve 

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

 it an efifective 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 stuffs, 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 the 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 and Laboratories. 



The offices, laboratories and poultry plant of the Maine Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station are at the University of Maine, 

 Ororo. Orono is the freight, express, post, telegraph and tele- 

 phone address for the offices and laboratories. 



Visitors to the Station will find it convenient to leave the 

 steam cars at Bangor or Old Town, as the railway station at 

 Orono is a mile from the University. Bangor and Old Town 



