AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. V 



for this was that the publication was of a strictly scientific nature 

 and while presenting the results which it is hoped will lead to 

 practical conclusions eventually, its contents were of such a 

 nature as to be of little general interest. Besides the five parts 

 of the station report, there was also issued a bulletin on the 

 Babcock Milk Test and six newspaper bulletins, the latter being 

 designed as a concise and simple statement of the outcome of 

 certain practical experiments. 



Station Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition. 



At a meeting of the association of colleges and experiment 

 stations held at Champaign, 111., in November, 1890, it was voted 

 that the experiment stations unite with the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in making a co-operative exhibit at the 

 Columbian Exposition. A committee of five was appointed to act 

 in conjunction with the Central Office of Experiment Stations in 

 forming and executing plans for this exhibit. It was decided 

 that instead of inviting each experiment station to make an 

 individual exhibit, thus causing very much of repetition, it would 

 be better to co-ordinate the total exhibit into sections, each section 

 to represent a particular subject. I was invited to take immediate 

 charge of the section devoted to Animal Nutrition and after con- 

 sultation with yourself agreed to do so. It was evident from the 

 first that because of the nature of this subject, the exhibit could 

 not consist so much of objects of special interest as of a graphic 

 display of results. For instance, it was very evident that the 

 main factor of the exhibit must be a display of the relation of food 

 and growth under varying conditions, and if such a display were 

 to mean anything as an expression of the work of American 

 experiment stations, it must be based upon their experimental 

 data. This necessitated the review of all the station literature 

 bearing upon experiments in anim.al nutrition. All the experi- 

 ment stations that had conducted feeding experiments were invited 

 to assist in this work, and some of them very kindly furnished 

 the data of their own feeding experiments so arranged and 

 digested as to be immediately useful in obtaining certain necessary 

 general averages. The required data from swine feeding experi- 

 ments were very kindly furnished by the Office of Experiment 

 Stations from manuscript prepared by Dr. Armsby, of State 

 College, Pa. 



In order to obtain the necessary figures pertaining to milk pro- 

 duction and the growth of bovines and sheep, there were used the 



