THE MAINE EXPERIMENT STATION. 67 



nutritive ratio of the dietary, while at the same time the cost of 

 the dietary was diminished. Milk should not be regarded as 

 a luxury, but as an economical article of diet. 



SKIMMED MILK OR WATER IN BREAD MAKING. 



An experiment designed to show the increased value of bread 

 in which skimmed milk has been substituted for water. Results: 

 Skimmed milk bread contains more protein than water bread 

 and is as completely digested. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE STATION. . 



The Station has purchased 15 annual reports and 88 bulletins. 

 The first 26 bulletins were newspaper bulletins published prior 

 to the reorganization of the Station in 1888. All matter of 

 permanent importance was included in the reports. The first 

 number of the present series of bulletins was published May 1, 

 1889. 



The titles of the principal papers in the reports and of the 

 bulletins follow. The mark * preceding a report or bulletin 

 •denotes that the edition is nearly or quite exhausted. Copies of 

 the publications not marked * will be sent on application so long 

 as the numbers on hand will allow. The reports of this Station 

 are bound with those of the Secretary of Agriculture, so that 

 anyone having the "Agriculture of Maine" has also the report 

 of the Station for that year. 



*REP0RT FOR 1885. 



Inspection of fertilizers. 



REPORT FOR I 886. 



Inspection of fertilizers. Wood ashes. Harbor mud. Ashes vs. acid for 

 treating ground bone. Purchase of fertilizing material. Manure residue 

 of corn meal and cotton-seed meal. Composition of cattle foods and 

 ■special foods. Digestion experiments with timothy hay and corn in 

 various forms. Feeding cotton-seed meal for milk and butter production. 

 Feeding steers for growth. 



*REPORT FOR I 88/. 



Inspection of fertilizers. Miscellaneous fertilizers. Experiments with 

 fertilizers at the Station and among farmers. Analyses of feeding 



