UNCLE SAM'S BIG COLLEGE 315 



STATE MUST HELP. 



One of the important conditions of the Act is that 

 each State must duplicate the money above $10,000 a 

 year appropriated to it by the federal government. 

 The money raised by the State may come from the 

 State, county, college, local authority, or individual 

 contributions from within the State, for the mainte- 

 nance of cooperative agricultural extension work. The 

 governor of each State, in the interval until the legis- 

 lature meets, is called upon to designate the agricultural 

 college or colleges to which the federal funds are to 

 be paid. 



A limitation is placed upon the use to which the 

 funds appropriated by the United States are to be put. 

 E"o money appropriated by the United States shall be 

 applied, directly or indirectly, to the purchase, erection, 

 preservation, or repair of any building or buildings, or 

 the purchase or rental of land, or in college-course 

 teaching, lectures in colleges, promoting agricultural 

 trains, or any other purpose not specified in the Act. 



Not more than 5 per cent, of each annual appro- 

 priation may be applied to the printing and distribu- 

 tion of publications, and this means that 95 per cent, 

 of the appropriation must be devoted to the giving of 

 instruction and practical demonstrations to persons not 

 attending the colleges. 



If any grant of the federal government be lost, mis- 

 managed, or misapplied in any way, the State respon- 

 sible must make good the sum before receiving any 

 further federal appropriations. 



There is no other country in which agricultural edu- 

 cation and experimentation are so munificently en- 

 dowed. I fear at times that too much money is avail- 



