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Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. _ , ·
gg of The Agricultural Experiment Station of the University was · S ·`
umm' ` established by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees in ‘· ~ S
Whose S September, 1885, when the department was organized and a Director f E ‘
umm; ` appointed. In 1886 the Experiment Station was recognized and named ' ,
611;; by the General Assembly of Kentucky. ln 1887 it became the bene-
Sl XS _ Hciary of the nrst annual appropriation of $15,000, under the Hatch S   V
;'UHi_ - Act providing for the establishment of agricultural experiment sta· `
. tions for the states and territories- In 1906 an act of Congress, for ·
adm . the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations, S ·
LS me known as the Adams Act, appropriated to each state and territory ` A
)8d’_m $5,000 for the year ending June 30, 1906, and the same sum. with an » `
nal ll? increase of $2,000 per annum for nve years, after which the maximum
mem` of $15,000 should continue without change. In 1912 the Kentucky S
Of 110 _ Legislature voted an appropriation of $50,000 annualy for the benefit .
Email? S of the Experiment Station. , ,
B pil" The work of the Experiment Station is directed to two objects:
umm; 1. To a constant succession of experiments made by specialists, in ‘
{6 lam} order to learn which application of science will insure the best re-  
In am turns from the farm, the garden, the orchard, the vineyard, the stock- S
p€0_plS` S yard, and the dairy: 2. To the publication of bulletins announcing *
cmg}? S such results of the experiments as are found to be valuable to the
ntucw People of Kentucky who seek profit from any of the prime sources *
of wealth—the soil, the flock and the herd.
The results of experiments have been published in twenty-eight .
if insii- S animal reports, two hundred and five bulletins and twelve circulars;
; "ihci: general appreciation of their utility is shown by the fact that, while
rl class · no bulletins are sent except upon application, the present mailing list
.f learn · of the Experiment Station contains about twenty thousand names, and
n order is constantly increasing.
dustriai The Experiment Station is well equipped as to buildings and 1
18 tw; apparatus and owns a good experiment farm of 240 acres, conveni-
Science QUUY Situated. It has a staff of 90 persons engaged in eleven depart-
tion has ments of research and in correspondence with other stations and
as bee: with farmers throughout the State. The Kentucky Agricultural Ex-
classics Iieriment Station is not only an important adjunct to the University
and mi lll the education of students for the leading industrial pursuits, but
original It is also, through its continual diffusion of knowledge to a large
‘ Ili`0Dortion of our population, an institution of great usefulness to tho 7
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