Vlll MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



The work that the Experiment Station can undertake from 

 the Adams Act fund is more restricted and can "be applied 

 only to paying the necessary expenses for 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 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. 



The Legislature of 1913 provided for investigations by the 

 Station in animal husbandry which make Chapter 141 of the 

 Public Laws for 19 13. The following quoted from the act out- 

 lines the purpose of the act. "The Maine Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station in addition to the investigations now conducted by 

 it, shall conduct scientific investigations in animal husbandry, 

 including experiments and observations on dairy cattle and 

 other domestic animals. Said investigations shall be carried 

 out 'under control of the director of the Maire Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. There shall be appropriated annually 

 from the State Treasury the sum of five thousand dollars to be 

 paid to the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station and the 

 same shall be expended by the director of said Station in exe- 

 cuting the provisions of this act." 



Inspections. 



Up to the close of the year 1913 it had been the duty of the 

 Director of the Station to execute the laws regulating the sale 

 of agricultural seeds, apples, commercial feeding stuffs, com- 

 naercial fertilizers, drugs, foods, fungicides and insecticide?, 

 and the testing of the graduated glassware used by creameries. 

 Beginning with Januar}-- 1914 the purely executive part of these 



