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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, haying due regard to the vary- 

 ing conditions and neds 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. 



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 fertilizers, drugs, foods, fungicides and insecticides, and 

 the testing of the graduated glassware used by creameries. 

 Beginning wath January, 1914, the purely executive part of 

 these laws is handled by the Commissioner of Agriculture. It 

 is still the duty of the Director of the Station to make the analy- 

 tical examination of the samples collected by the Commissioner 

 and to publish the results of the analyses. The cost of the 

 inspections is borne by fees and by a State appropriation. 



Offices and Laboratories. 



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

 cultural Experiment Station are at the University of Maine, 

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

 phone address for the offices and laboratories. 



