REGULATIONS OF (tOVEKNINC^ BOARDS OF STATIONS. 291 



ami the inx'^^ideiit of tliu college, e-x ollicio, uiul «ix iiiembers appointed l>y the gov- 

 ernor for terms of six yeart<. The ollieers of the hoard are a president, elected from 

 its niend)ers, and a secretary and a treiisurer ai)pointed hy the l)oard. The i)resident 

 of the board is ex-otiicio member of each of ita standing committees, of which one 

 on exj)eriments, consisting of two members, has iinme<liate oversiglit of the station. 



The executive <jf the stiition is the director who reports through tne president to 

 the board of agriculture. Associated with the director is a council called together at 

 infre(juentand irregular intervals, at the option of the director, to consider such mat- 

 ters as he may ))ring before it. Invariably once each year all tlie workers in the 

 station are called together and the director reports as to all the experiments going 

 forward in the station, so that each inemlier of the staff is informed as to the work 

 and is able to explain to farmers or others with whom he comes in contact just what 

 the station is <]oing. This council consists of the president of the college, secretary 

 of the l)oaril, and the station director, horticulturist, bacteriologist, entomologist, 

 and experimenter with live stock. It has legislative power to a certain degree and 

 i.s above all the advisory council of the director. The board of agriculture has never 

 interfered with the experiments of the station nor indicated the policy to he 

 followed. 



The money coming from the General Government is expended by requisition signed 

 by the director if over $5, or by the head of the dei)artment if f(jr smaller sums. 

 An allotment is madi' annually to each (U'partment for funds for running expenses, 

 although as a matter of fact the tlirector an<l the head of each department are in con- 

 stant cbnsultation. 



MINJ^TESOTA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota, iSt. Anthony 



Park, St. Paul. 



Department of University of Minnesota. 



The State di'legates the government of the station to the board of regents of the 

 university, which body supplements the funds accruing from the National ajtpro- 

 priations with others from its own current expense fund. The State legislature pro- 

 vides special funds for buildings and for the equipment and support (jf the substations. 

 The board of regents of the university consists of the governor of the State, the 

 superintendent of i)ublic instruction, and the president of the university, ex officio, 

 and nine mendjers appointed by the governor for terms of six years each. 



The agricultural department, including the experiment station, the college of agri- 

 cidture, an<l the school of agriculture, is governed by the board of regents. Of this 

 board there is an agricultural conmiittee of live, to whom the director submits a 

 full report of the work of each division imder his direction. On the 1st of April of 

 eat-h year the repcjrt of this committee is su])niitted to (he Ixjard of regents, and on 

 its api>roval the director is authorized to expen<l the t-stimated amounts allowed 

 largely as he det-ms best, keeping, of course, in clo.^e touch with his agricultunii 

 committee. The bills are audited l)y the executive cttnnnittee of the board of regents. 

 There are no rules or regulations laid down as to the govenunent of the institution. 



The (lirector is the executive head of the staff and is the medium of conmnmication 

 bctwi-eii mend)ers of the staff an<l the governing board, of which he is a member, 

 lie has full consulting and advisory powers with all the heads of divisions, and to 

 them ]\v distributes and delegates the technical research work and the publishing of 

 reports of the experiment stations. 



