An Experiment Station in Vermont

The State Board of Agriculture have resolved to establish an experiment station, under the charge of Prof. Henry M. Seely, Secretary of the Board, being the second one on this continent, the first, that at Middletown, Ct., having been in operation for some time past.

The Board resolved that Prof. Seely 'be authorized to make or cause to be made by others, such investigations and experiments as shall seem to him likely to simplify and explain the relations of science to agriculture, make additions to our knowledge and skill in the cultivation of the soil and raising and care of stock and protect us from fraud and imposition, such investigations to be without expense to the board or the state.'

Although the work to be accomplished must necessarily be small when compared to that of stations endowed and sustained by government patronage and individual liberality, much can be done. The questions to be answered are, for instance, such as these: The raising of cream at different temperatures; coagulation by acids, rennet, electricity or other agencies; the composition, natural and artificial coloring of butter; the globules, animal and other odors and essential oils, and the chemical decomposition of butter and cheese; also in regard to that valuable tuber, the potato: the composition and structure of different varieties; fertilizers, the obvious questions in relation to them; seeds, their genuineness, purity, quality and vitality; feeding stock, steaming food, food rations, etc.; the apple, testing the hardiness of promising varieties; parasites and diseases; the structure, growth and composition, and the causes and chemical results of decay.

There are many other questions which may, with great benefit to the farmer, be investigated. It should be added that Prof. Seely gives his labors voluntarily and without remuneration.