AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. V 



Jersey, do not publish the results of their inspection until as late 

 as July, August and September, or at least did not in the year 

 1891, should convince any who may be dissatisfied that the Maine 

 Station is not derelict in duty. It certainly would be of advan- 

 tage if the results of the inspection could be known earlier, and 

 there would be general approval of any change in the 

 existing law which would render this possible. None should feel, 

 however, that under present conditions nothing of value is 

 accomplished. If an inferior fertilizer is sold in the state, tin- 

 Station inspection is sure to discover it, as has been done in 

 several instances, and the publication of the analyses, even 

 several months later than seems desirable, will certainly effectively 

 discourage the further sale of unsatisfactory goods. 



Increased Facilities. 

 Each year since the Station was organized has seen some 

 enlargement of equipment, either of men or apparatus, and the 

 year 1891 has proved to be no exception in this respect. The 

 most notable gain has been in the organization of horticultural 

 work. This was made possible through the election early in the 

 year, of W. M. Munson, B. S., a graduate of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, and for two years first assistant of Prof. 

 Bailey in the Cornell University Experiment Station. Prof. 

 Munson comes to the Station with a thorough training, both in 

 the scientific relations and in the art of horticulture, and the 

 development which his department has already attained gives 

 excellent promise of future success. During the year a new 

 Head-house has been built in connection with the Forcing-house, 

 partly at the expense of the Station, the interior of the Forcing- 

 house has been improved for experimental purposes, the experi- 

 mental value of the Station gardens has been greatly increased 

 by the addition of new varieties and by an improvement in 

 arrangement, and the outside work in farmers' orchards in 

 studying varieties and in testing the ellicacy of certain fungicides 

 and insecticides has been enlarged. There has also become 

 available through the erection of the new Dairy-house, increased 

 opportunities for the testing of methods in the manipulation of 

 milk, and to some extent this work has been entered upon. In 

 the basement of the new barn, pens especially adapted to experi- 

 mental swine feeding have been built. On the whole, the past 

 year has been one of substantial progress and it is hoped that 



