306 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



more exclusivelj^ research institutions. The opportunity for this 

 is now afforded by the growing recognition of extension work as a 

 legitimate function of the agricultural colleges. As soon as the 

 extension departments of the colleges are efficientl}^ organized and 

 provided with adequate funds it should be comparatively easj- to 

 transfer to them a considerable share of the business now performed 

 by the stations. 



As far as the federal funds given to the stations are concerned, it 

 will be the effort of this Department to confine work under the 

 Hatch Act more strickly than ever before to experimental work of 

 a substantial kind, and no longer to permit expenditures from that 

 fund for farmers' institute work, extension teaching, or the prepara- 

 tion of compilations. The Adams fund will, of course, be restricted 

 to " original research." 



