Excerpt from A Handbook of Agriculture There has been an enlargement of the facilities for independent and original inquiry in various lines, and this important phase of modern education has been industriously fos tered. Notable additions to the equipment for such work have been made in astronomy and bacteriology, but the most important have been in the line of agricultural investigation. The equipment of the Experiment Station has been greatly increased. South Hall, which had been previously occupied' in part by the agricultural department, has been wholly as signed to it, and has been, in large part, overhauled and refitted, and now furnishes very commodious apartments for it. The laboratory facilities have been fully doubled. New apparatus and a large invoice of important foreign works have been purchased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.