The agricultural experiment stations in the United States . 1), consisting of Shorthorn, Holstein-Friesian, and Jersey cattle, Morgan and work horses, and Shropshire,Merino, and Dorset sheep, providing such use is in no way detrimentalto the animals. The station owns a collection of about 1,000 photographs and lan-tern slides illustrating horticultural and field experiments, about 500samples of seeds, and 100 specimens of plants illustrating the resultsof experimental work, besides an herbarium of 4,699 specimens. Theextensive museums of the university are open to station are als
The agricultural experiment stations in the United States . 1), consisting of Shorthorn, Holstein-Friesian, and Jersey cattle, Morgan and work horses, and Shropshire,Merino, and Dorset sheep, providing such use is in no way detrimentalto the animals. The station owns a collection of about 1,000 photographs and lan-tern slides illustrating horticultural and field experiments, about 500samples of seeds, and 100 specimens of plants illustrating the resultsof experimental work, besides an herbarium of 4,699 specimens. Theextensive museums of the university are open to station are also important collections belonging to the State laboratoryof natural history. The station owns a library of 4,559 bound volumes, mostly botan-ical or chemical works, but no additions are being made at present,except by donations. The library is housed with the general univer-sity library, which contains about 45,000 volumes. The station is well equipped with apparatus for its special lines of U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bui. 80, Office of Expt Stations. Plate U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bui. 80, Office of Expt. Stations. Plate XLI.
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