ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



Establishment of the Station. 



The Maine Fertilizer Control and Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, established by Act of the Legislature approved March 

 3, 1885, began its work in April of that year in quarters fur- 

 nished by the College. After the Station had existed for two 

 years, Congress' passed what is known as the Hatch Act, estab- 

 lishing agricultural experiment stations in every state. This 

 grant was accepted by the Maine Legislature by an Act 

 approved March 16, 1887, which established the Maine Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station as a department of the University. 

 The reorganization was effected in June, 1887, but work was 

 not begun until February 16, 1888. In 1906, Congress passed 

 the Adams Act for the further endowment of the stations 

 established under the Hatch Act. 



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 1913, it had been the duty of the 

 Director of the Station to execute the laws regulating the sale 

 of agricultural seeds, apples, commercial feeding stuffs, com- 

 mercial fertilizers, drugs, foods, fungicides and insecticides, and 

 the testing of the graduated glassware used by creameries. 

 Beginning with January, 1914, the purely executive part of 



