On Plant PATnoLCKiv and Baltlriologv I2y 



Maine was at State College, Pennsylvania. State organized 

 stations, moreover, had been established at Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College under Dr. Goessmann; at Rutgers University, 

 New Brunswick, New Jersey, under Dr. George H. Cook, leading 

 authority on soils research; at Ohio State University, Columbus, 

 under Dr. William R. Lazenby, professor of horticulture and 

 forestry; at Alabama Polytechnic histitute under Director J. S. 

 Newman; and in Wisconsin the university station under W. A. 

 Henry. State stations of independent status were maintained at 

 New Haven, Connecticut, under Dr. Johnson, professor of agri- 

 culture at Sheffield Scientific School; at Geneva, New York, under 

 Dr. Sturtevant; and at Raleigh, North Carolina, under the direc- 

 tion of Dr. Qiarles W. Dabney. All of the stations received, 

 directly or indirectly, appropriations from the states, and the 

 amounts ranged from $5,000 to $11,000 (New Jersey) and 

 $20,000 (New York). A license tax on fertilizers helped finance 

 work in the south. ''^ In December 1886 a station was founded 

 as a department of the University of Vermont at Burlington. In 

 1887 experiment stations would be established at Purdue Univer- 

 sity, Indiana, and at the University of Nebraska where Bessey, in 

 addition to being professor of botany, would be the station's direc- 

 tor and dean of the Industrial College, and, in the east, at Pennsyl- 

 vania State College. In 1888, the year a state organized station 

 would be combined with a station located at the University of 

 South Carolina in 1887, federal funds under the Hatch Act of 

 1887 were made available to each state for a station, and the 

 number of stations was increased to at least one, and in a few 

 instances two or more, in almost every state of the Union. 



Since 1879 a privately supported agricultural experiment station 

 had been functioning at Mountainville, Orange County, New 

 York. By 1885, however, neither this nor any one of the state 

 stations had brought the movement toward scientific agriculture 

 into the prominence it achieved after the state stations became 

 nation-wide. By 1885 in most instances, the available land areas 

 were inconsiderable — five, ten, twenty, or thirty acres, although in 

 New York, Alabama, and Wisconsin, between more than a hun- 

 dred and two hundred acres were usable as experimental areas. 



^" Agricultural Experiment Stations in America — Condensed Facts, 1885, Proc. 

 4th and 5th Meet's Soc. Prom. Agric. Sci., 95, 1885. 



