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338 THE UNIVERSITY AND STATE The nutrition laboratory also conducted experiments upon the influence of different kinds of feeding-stuffs upon the growth, fattening, and nutrition of beef cattle, swine, and lambs, and established the best rations for such animals—the agricultural experiment station publishing these results. The chief conclusions obtained were that steers might be fattened upon a very low protein ration, and that the greater the amount of food furnished, the lower was the coefficient of digestibility. Finally, the laboratory was engaged to assist the Pellagra Commission appointed by Gov. Deneen, on which the University was well represented; and after study of the dietary of the inmates of the various State institutions, it showed that it was wanting in animal foods, and that more fresh fruits and vegetables should be offered for their mineral elements. In short, the meat trade, the housewives, and the live stock producers especially of Illinois, and the medical men and chemists of the whole country, have been directly benefited by the study. The State offices connected with the University, which use its equipment and the time of some of its faculty, are an integral part of its extension work. The State Entomologist, whose post was permanently established at Urbana in 1899 by a law requiring the University to provide laboratory and office, is expected to investigate all dangerous insects, to inspect and certify annually all nurseries and importations of nursery stock in the State, and to maintain a general watch over its horticultural interests.fi Experiments carried through many years upon the repression of chinch bugs have helped materially in establishing the methods now accepted.*! So, also, the office has been useful in discovering or promoting methods of destroying the Hessian fly and corn-
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