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2  _»’   l A Station, In March, 1887, Congress passed the Hatch Act,   ~\e· _
TZ} ‘":‘}   . l appr-opriating the sum of fifteen thousand dollarsannually  
l 5   out of the Federal Treasury to each State and Territory of  
      the Union for the support and maintenance of agricultural  
    experiment stations. In 1888, the Legislature of,Kentucky  
    gave its formal assent to the provisions of the Hatch Acc  
      appropriating funds for the benefit of the Kentucky·Agricul-  
    tural Experiment Station and steps were at once taken by   aa
    the authorities of the Agricultural and Mechanical College  
    of Kentucky to put the work of the Experiment Station on a  
  l firmer basis. Its management was placed in the hands of 3 l —
  ? Board of Control, consisting of the Executive Committee of  
    the Board of Trustees, the President of the College and thc  
  4   Director of the Experiment Station. In 1887, the Strader   ·
 if , place of 48% acres on the Nicholasville Pike was- purchased i
  I for an experimental farm, and in 1888, the contract was let l
  for the first Experiment Station building now known as the
    "old chemistry building." This building was completed and I  
  ready for occupancy by the first of September, 1889. ,
  The list of Experiment Station ofiicers given inthe first  
  , annual report of the Experiment Station, transmitted to the I
  · Governor of Kentucky, February 1, 1889, included the fol- i
  , lowing persons: _ ,
  M. A. Scovell, Director. - l
  A. M. Peter, Assistant Chemist,
  H. E. Curtis, Second Assistant Chemist.
  H. Garman, Entomologist and Botanist.
  A· T- Parker, Mlcroscopist, ,
  James Murray, Practical Horticulture. l
  C. L. Curtis, Assistant Agriculturist. l
  Sam E. Black, Secretary and Stenognapher, i
  In the first four years of its existence, the Experiment
  Station published sixteen bulletins, giving the results of .
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