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 _ GENERAL INFORMATION 3 ·
ll far more than an agricultural and mechanical college, embracing I
as it does, not merely the three original departments, but-eighteen
ig others. 1
,f ` DEPARTMENT OE EDUCATION.
l` , In 1893 the college authorities, in response to a demand for .
gl “ advanced instruction for teachers, organized a full collegiate course ` ·
’ leading to the degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy. In 1906 two full . 1
11 collegiate courses, each with Education as a major, were substi- . . I
1’ . tuted for the course established in 1893. One leads to the degree `
h 1 A of Bachelor of Arts in Education and the other to Bachelor of '
i   Science in Education. . ·
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it { KENTUCKY EXPERIMENT STATION.
O   The Agricultural Experiment Station of the State University
S I was established by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trus-
C l tees in September, 1885, when the Department was organized and ` .
" . a Director appointed. In 1886, the Station was recognized and
" named by the General Assembly of Kentucky. In 1887 it became _
C the beneficiary of the first annual appropriation of $15,000, under
h ‘ E the Hatch Act _pr0viding for the establishment of Agricultural
C , Experiment Stations for the States and Territories. In 1906 "for
S ` the more complete endowment" of Agricultural Experiment Sta- ` i
‘v. tions, an act of Congress, known as the Adams Act, appropriated ‘ ._ _
to each State and Territory $5,000 for the year ending june 30, ,. \ v_
IQO6. and the same sum with an increase of $2,000 per annum for i ` , .,
five years. after which the maximum of $15,000 shall continue
Qc ~A without change. I
C P ` The work of the Station is directed to two objects: 1. To a eon—
1   stant succession of experiments made by specialists, in order to
E   learn which applications of science will insure the best returns from , ‘ p
·"* the farm, the garden, the orchard, the vineyard, the stockyard, '
- and the dairy. 2. T0 the publication of bulletins announcing such .
- results of the experiments as are found to be valuable to the ·
I M people of Kentucky who seek profit from any one of those prime ‘
S -5 sources of wealth—the soil, the flock, and the herd.
1 , The results of experiments have been published in nineteen i
_ l annual reports and one hundred and forty bulletins, and general
°   I appreciation of their utility is shown in the fact that, while no i ` ,'
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