ORGANIZATION OF GOVERNING BOARDS AND RULES ADOPTED 

 BY THEM FOR THE REGULATION OF AGRICULTURAL EXPERI- 

 MENT STATIONS. 



AliABAMA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 



AiiJnini. 



Departiiicnt of tlie Alabama Polytechnic Institute. 



Tiic Alabama Station is a department of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and is 

 governed l)y the lioanl of trustees of the institute. There are twelve members in 

 the board, two of whom, tlie governor and the State sujjerintendent of education, 

 are ex officio. The other members are appointed ]jy the governor for six years, one 

 from each Congressional district, except the district in which the institute is located, 

 which is entitled to two members. This board has supervision of all matters per- 

 taining to tlie election of officers of the station, the appropriation of its funds, and 

 the iinal decision of all questions relating to its management. There is a standing 

 committee of the board consisting of three members, designated tiie committee of 

 tru.«tees on the experiment station. This cominittee is required to visit the station 

 each year ami make a special report at the annual meeting of the board. So per- 

 manent improvement may l)e made without its approval. The general control of all 

 the affairs of the station not exercised by the board is intrusted to a station council 

 a])poiiited or elected by that board and consisting at present of the president, 

 director, heads of divisions, and associate chemist. No rules have been adopted by 

 the board. 



Canebrake Agricultural Experiment Station, Vniontorrn. 



The Canebrake Agricultural Experiment Station is maintained exclusively by the 

 State. The board of control consists of the commissioner of agriculture of the State, 

 the director of tlie station, "and five cultivators of Canebrake land." The director 

 of the station at Auburn is by law director ex officio of the Canebrake Station. The 

 resident members of the staff are an a.ssistant director in charge, veterinarian, and 

 treasurer. 



Tuskegee Agricultural Experiment Station, Taskegee. 



The Tuskegee Agricultural lixperimcnt Station is managed by a board of control 

 consisting of the State commissioner of agriculture, the jiri'sideiit of the Alabama 

 Polytechnic Institute, the director t)f the experiment station at Aul)urii, and the 

 memliers of the board of trustees of the Tuskegee Normal ami Industrial Institute 

 who resiile in the town of Tiiskegt-e. Imnu'diate oversight of station affairs is exer- 

 ciseil through an executive committee of the board of control. A State law i)r()vi<les, 

 "That the board of control must cause such experiments to be made at said station 

 as will advance the interest of scientific agriculture, an«l to cause such chemical 

 analyses to be made as are deemed necessary, all analyses, if requested, to be under 

 the supervision of the commissioner of agriculture, by the chemist of the agricul- 

 tural dej)artnient, without charge." 



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