SPECIAL REPORT FOR YEAR. / 



468 Preparation and Use of Lime-Sulphur in Orchard Spraying. 



471 Methods of Poultry Management at the Maine Agricultural 



Experiment Station. 

 485 Special Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station for 



the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1912. 

 488 'Summaries of Station Work. I. Apple Studies. 



A complete list of the Station publications for 1913 is given 

 in Bulletin 222. 



All publications of the Station are distributed free to resi- 

 dents of Maine. The demand for the Station bulletins outside 

 of the State has made such inroads upon the printing fund that 

 a price is put upon them to non-residents with the exception of 

 exchanges, scientific investigators and libraries. 



Equipment oe the Station. 



The Station is well equipped in laboratories and apparatus, 

 particularly in the lines of chemistry, entomology, horticulture, 

 pomology, plant pathology and poultry investigations. Its 

 poultry plant is probably the most complete for the purpose of 

 investigation of that of any experiment station in the country. 

 While the Station carries on some cooperative work such as 

 orcharding, and field experiments with farmers in different 

 parts of the State, most of the work is conducted in its own 

 laboratories and poultry plant at Orono, and upon Highmoor 

 Farm, situated in the town of Monmouth. 



Its offices and laboratories are chiefly located in Holmes Hall 

 (named in honor of Dr. Ezekiel Holmes, the first Secretary o"*^ 

 the Board of Agriculture) on the University of Maine campus, 

 Orono. It is a two story brick building, 81x48 feet. The 

 poultry plant is also situated on the University of Maine cam.- 

 pus. 



Aroostook Farm. 



More than 70 years ago, Dr. Ezekiel Holmes, the first secre- 

 tary of the Board of Agriculture, and who was in many ways 

 a pioneer in Maine in the application of science to agriculture, 

 urged the necessity for an experimental farm in Aroostook 

 County. This idea conceived so long ago came to partial ful- 

 fillment by the act of Legislature of 1913 providing an appro- 

 priation for the purchase of a farm for experimental purposes 

 in agriculture in Aroostook County. The appropriation for the 



