The agricultural experiment stations in the United States . VERMONT. 429 house (PI. CXXXVII. fig. 2), apiary, and the farm superintendentsdwelling house. The entire college farm, containing about 125 acres, is under thecontrol of the station. It is managed mostly as a dairy farm and itsrevenue- are applied to the cost of management. The held plats areshown in PL CXXXVIII, tig. 1. The station live stock consists of ;>horses, 20 pigs, and 72 head of cattle, including 54 cows. All cowsthat are in good condition to be used in experimental feeding tests arethus used yearly from November to May.
The agricultural experiment stations in the United States . VERMONT. 429 house (PI. CXXXVII. fig. 2), apiary, and the farm superintendentsdwelling house. The entire college farm, containing about 125 acres, is under thecontrol of the station. It is managed mostly as a dairy farm and itsrevenue- are applied to the cost of management. The held plats areshown in PL CXXXVIII, tig. 1. The station live stock consists of ;>horses, 20 pigs, and 72 head of cattle, including 54 cows. All cowsthat are in good condition to be used in experimental feeding tests arethus used yearly from November to May. It is a general rule of thestation to use large numbers of animals in each test and to conductthe same test during at least two years. The station has a horticultural herbarium containing about 1,000specimens and a mycological herbarium of about 10,000 specimens,among which are sets of the principal American exsiccati publishedduring recent years, and a large number of specimens collected by thebotanists in a survey of the State. The officers of the stati
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