Wing of proposed building, College of Agriculture 
What the University of Kentucky Is Doing- for the Farmers 
of the State Through the College of Agriculture 
The College of Agriculture as at present organized is 
composed of three divisions: the division of resident 
instructions, in which instruction in agriculture is given 
to students who come to the University; the division 
of agriculture extension, thru which information im- 
portant to farmers and housewives is carried to them 
on the farm and in the home; and the agricultural ex- 
periment station, which is really the research division 
of the College of Agriculture. 
The Experiment Station was earliest developed to a 
high degree of efficiency thru the desire of the farmers 
of the state to have their agricultural problems cleared 
up, either indirectly, as by the fertilizer, commercial 
feeding stuffs and food and drug laws, or directly, as by 
the fifty thousand dollars appropriation of 1912; and 
also thru certain other control laws which carry no 
appropriation, such as the nursery inspection law and 
the seed law. It is the operation of the latter law and 
the work done under it by the Station which would 
seem most appropriate for consideration in a seed cat- 
alog. 
The principal objects of the Kentucky Seed Law 
passed in 1916, are to protect the farmer against infe- 
rior seeds and to protect the state against the intro- 
duction and spread of noxious weeds. The law requires 
the purity of the seed and the germination, as well as 
the kind of seed, to be plainly indicated on the labels, 
and not only is a protection and an aid to the farmer, 
but, when generally enforced will be a protection to the 
honest dealer against the competition of the unscrup- 
ulous dealers who would not be above misrepresenting 
the character of their goods. There is an important 
factor that should be considered by the purchaser of 
seeds which is often overlooked; out of two lots of a 
given kind of seed, one with high percentages of purity 
and germination and the other with low percentages, 
it usually happens that one can get more good seed 
for his money in buying the highest priced seed, which ii 
is also practically pure, than in buying the lower priced 
seed of much lower purity. 
The inspection and analysis of fertilizers, under the 
Department of Fertilizer Control, is one of the oldest 
activities of the Station. Every brand of fertilizer on 
sale in the state is analyzed each year and the results 
are published in the form of a bulletin. Our inspectors 
visit a great many towns, collecting samples of the 
fertilizer that is being delivered to farmers. Besides 
this, any farmer who is a purchaser of fertilizer may 
send in, for free analysis, a sample of what he has 
purchased, under certain regulations prescribed in the 
law. 
A similar method of inspection and analysis of feed- 
ing stuffs is in operation under the Department of 
Feeding Stuffs Control. 
The analysis and inspection of foods and drugs on 
sale in the state and the regulation of the sanitary 
conditions under which articles of food are sold, is 
being actively carried on under the Department of 
Food and Drug Control. 
Stocks of fruit trees and the like in the hands of 
nurserymen are inspected at intervals by the agents 
of the Experiment Station to guard against the intro- 
duction of San Jose scale and other pests. 
In addition to this state control work, the work of ag- 
ricultural investigation and experiment, which is really 
the proper field of Experiment Station work, is being 
carried on by the Station with the aid of state funds 
and those derived from the federal government. For 
the more effective prosecution of its work, the Station 
is organized into a number of departments as follows: 
The Department of Agronomy deals with problems 
connected with the production of crops and the man- 
agement of soils. Experimental field work in this de- 
partment is being done at Lexington and several places 
this state. 
