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· Among the items of general interest concerning the work
I _ of the Experiment Station for the year 1912, may be enum-
- erated the following:
` With the object of providin_g further revenues for the
maintenance of the Experiment Station and for the carrying
on of various lines of experimental work in agriculture, the
_ General Assembly at its regular session in 1912, appropriated
to the Experiment Station the sum of fifty thousand dollars
~ per annum. l
Section 1 of this act reads as follows:
_ "That there is hereby appropriated to the Agricultural
Experiment Station of the State University, Lexington, Ken-
tucky, for the current fiscal year and for each succeeding
year thereafter, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the pur-
pose of making field experiments in the several sections of
` the State in order to ascertain by chemical and physical exam- ·
` ination of our soils and by direct experiments in laboratory
, and fields what crops and treatment are best suited to each,
whether the present methods are tending to best results and
whether to the preservation or reduction of fertility, and
what rotation and treatment will be most effective in retain-
ing productive capacities of the soils of the various sections
of the State; to discover and demonstrate the best methods
of orchard treatment, the culture and marketing of fruits
and vegetables and the most effective remedies for insects
and diseases of fruits and vegetables, and to make a sys-
tematic study of plant breeding and development by means
of crossing and selection of new and improved varieties of
fruits and vegetables; to enable said Station to conduct
investigations calculated to develop the beef, pork and mutton
‘ producing interests of the State, and especially to devise and
conduct feeding experiments intended to demonstrate the
most successful combination of stock foods, and to discover,
if possible, the most economical and successful methods of
maintaining animals and fitting them for the market, for
pathological investigations, and to investigate live stock
conditions both at home and abroad, in so far as they affect
market values; to enable the said Station to conduct investi-
gations for the purpose of developing the dairy interests of
the State, and including feeding experiments for production