v_ - if Melville Amasa Scovell. 5 -
i .. various investigations of interest to Kentucky farmers; K
i five of these were on commercial fertilizers, three on wheat
experiments, twolon experiments with potatoes, one on the
effect of fertilizers on the quality of tobacco, one on corn
fodder as a food for stock, one on milk, one on distillery
slops, one on clover and one on analyses of feeding stuffs. ,
K In addition to the results given in these bulletins many 4
  chemical analyses were made of various agricultural pro- K
2 ducts, such as grasses, hays and feedstuis, mineral waters, _
S sorghum juices, etc., etc. We have seen that the first .
annual report of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment K
K Station for the year 1888, in reality included a brief his-
torical account of the establishment and organization of the
. Experiment Station, together with its work and progress for
K the first three or four years in the life of the institution. K V
Beginning with the second annual report in 1889, annual  
reports of the work and progress of the Experiment Station  
V have been issued, showing the work and progress of the K   l
Experiment Station. during each succeeding year from 1889 . , ,
i to 1912. -  .  
E In its new quarters and on the experimental farm, the real , V
work for which the Experiment Station was organized was  
begun. Through the medium of its bulletins, of which six A
were published in 1889, the results of its investigations were 1 , ’
carried to the farmers of the State. It is also significant  ‘i
i that of these earlier bulletins, practically all have long since    
l been exhausted, so eagerly has the information which they .  
[ C0ntained been sought by the Kentucky farmer. Pig feed-   rl_·  
ing experiments were begun by Professor Connell. ln the  
` DlViSi0n of Fertilizer Control, a large number of fertilizers  
{ were analyzed both for manufacturers and for farmers.  
‘ The earlier field experiments included tests of a number of A