xxviii Twenty-jifth Annual Report of the _, ` A  
A houses; the analysis of veterinary supplies, i physicians’  
prescriptions, pharmaceuticals, remedies and liniments in-  
A tended both for man and animals; the collection of patent  
. = medicine labels and the correction of misstatements as tothe  
 .—   A medicinal value of such preparations. S  
A -   HORT10ULTURE. In the past, this important line of work  
l     has been seriously hampered through lack of space on the  
V _   l Experiment Station farm and through lack of assistance for  
Z I     A the proper. carrying on of the work. However, another be-   .
   [   ginning has been made in this important branch of Experi-  
W   ment Station work. Small plots of strawberries, raspberries,  
  .5*   currants and other small fruits, have been planted and a  
  - A   larger area set out in grapes, which previous experience has  
E `‘·‘     shown give favorable returns both on our blue grass soils and  
    elsewhere in the State. An old orchard` on the Experiment "
    Station farm is being rejuvenated and again brought under
  proper cultivation, V I { ‘
  REsEARcH. The federal acts known as the Hatch Act and t
  the Adams Act, and also the State Act, approved March 11,  
  1912, make provision for original investigations in the various Y
    branches of agriculture as a regular part of the work of the ,
  Experiment Station. Among the various investigations .
  C3I`I`l€d OY! in thé EXp€I`im€nt( Station Within the period eov- l A
  ered by this report may be mentioned the following:  
  The etiology of infectious abortion in cows and mares and §
  the diagnosis of infectious abortion in cattle by means of the l
  agglutination and complement fixation tests; a study of  
  . forage poisoning or the so-called cerebro-spinal meningitis in
  horses, cattle and mules; a continuation of the study of the  
  corn—ear worm and of- the nodule—producing bacteria of l
    leguminous plants; botanical studies on the weeds and poison- l