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is coordinate with the different colleges. The function of the 

 colleges is to teach. It is by the Act of Congress establishing 

 the Station, "The object and duty of said experiment stations 

 to conduct original researches or verify experiments 

 bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United 

 States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due 

 regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective 

 States or Territories." None of the funds received by the 

 Station can lawfully be used for teaching, for demonstration, 

 for exhibition purposes or for any purpose whatever outside 

 of research into agricultural problems. 



DEMONSTR-VTION EXPERIMENTS AND EXHIBITIOXS. 



The distinction which may be readily and sharply drawn 

 between work of investigation and work of teaching becomes 

 somewhat dimmed to people not accustomed to such distinctions 

 when demonstration experiments and exhibitions are concerned. 

 For instance the Station may have proven by experiment that 

 a certain fruit disease can be controlled by spraying with a 

 certain preparation and may be asked to go to a man's orchard 

 and conduct an "experiment" the whole object of which is not 

 to find out something not known but to show the man and his 

 neighbors how to do the work. For the extension department 

 of the College that is legitimate work but it is not work, how- 

 ever important and desirable it may be, that the Station has 

 any right to do, for its funds are appropriated for something 

 entirely different. 



The Station may be asked to make exhibits of the crops that 

 it has grown at some State or N^ational show, but it must refuse. 

 Not that the Station is not interested in the show if it is for 

 the development of agriculture but because the work of the 

 Station is limiterl to investigation and not teaching. It is 

 perfectly proper for the College to exhibit for the purpose of 

 instruction. It can take the crops, for instance, grown by thfe 

 Station an'! make exhibits of them to teach the visitor at the 

 show. P)Ut it would be unmoral for the College to exhibit for 

 the purpose of competing for a prize. It has been stated that if 

 the apples grown in 191 1 at Highmoor Farm had been exhibited 

 at the New England show Maine would have won the 



