Vlll MMNE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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 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 Maine 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 executing the pro- 

 visions of this act." 



Inspections. 

 Up to the close of the year 191 3 it had been the duty of the 

 Director of the Station to execute the laws regulating the sale 

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

 mercial fertihzers, drugs, foods, fungicides and insecticides, and 

 the testing of the graduated glassware used by creameries 

 Beginning with January 1914 the purely executive part of these 



