GENERAL INFORMATION. 37 ` , `
icky. appointed. In 1886 the Station was recognized and named by the General .
gfftic Assembly of Kentucky. In 1887 it became the beneficiary of the first .`
·ii9€d· annual appropriation of $15,000, under the Hatch Act providing for the r
lick? ~ establishment of agricultural experiment stations for the states and ter- ,
ution ritories. In 1906 an act of Congress, for the more`complete endowment V ‘
TSIIQYI of agricultural experiment stations, known as the Adams Act, appro- _
¤€nt$ priated to each state and territory $5,000 for the year ending June 30, ,
= disk 1906, and the same sum with an increase of $2,000 per annum for five ’
'€, do years, after which the maximum of $15,000 shall continue without change.
ieing In 1912 the Kentucky Legislature voted an appropriation of $50,000
C9 to ` annually for the benefit of the Station.
¤0¤·   The work of the Station is directed to two objects: 1. To a constant
Van'? succession of experiments made by specialists, in order. to learn which
m0¤· Q application of science will insure the best returns from the farm, the
Y1 th€ garden, the orchard, the vineyard, the stockyard, and the dairy. 2. To
{ the the publication of bulletins announcing such results of the experiments
T the as are found to be valuable to the people of Kentucky who seek profit
ment from any of the prime sources of wealth—the soil, the Hock and the
>ly of herd.
_ The results of experiments have been published in twenty-four
annual reports and one hundred and eighty-eight bulletins, and general
‘ appreciation of their utility is shown by the fact that, while no bulletins
Itions , are sent except upon application, the present mailing list of the station
ading ’ contains about eighteen thousand names, and is constantly increasing.
Jdies, I The Station is well equipped as to buildings and apparatus and owns
elated Q a good experiment farm of 240 acres, conveniently situated. It has a
.1 and E staff of 77 persons engaged in eleven departments of research and in cor-
s and   respondence with other stations and with farmers throughout the State.
e me- T The Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station is not only an important
apens- i adjunct to the University in the education of students for the leading in-
i, and   dustrial pursuits, but it is also, through its continual diffusion of knowl-
:ience V edge to a large proportion of our population, an institution of great use-
agri-   fulness to the commonwealth.
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Q Location.
_ The State University is located in the former City Park, in the south-
` ern part of the city of Lexington and near the Cincinnati Southern Rail-
V Was , Way. The site is elevated and commands a good view of much of the
565 in i city and of the surrounding country.
i`€€t°Y } Lexington, now a growing city of forty thousand inhabitants, is in