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stations, the one established and maintained by the state, 

 the other by the United States government, entitled the 

 Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. 1 The former is under a board of control 

 made up of eleven members, four of whom are members 

 ex officio, and the rest elected respectively by the Board 

 of Agriculture, the Massachusetts State Horticultural 

 Society, the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agri- 

 culture, the trustees of the Agricultural College, and the 

 State Grange, to represent their organizations. The latter 

 forms a department of the college, controlled by its trus- 

 tees and subject to their direction. Each is distinct from 

 the other in its organization and work. The Hatch Experi- 

 ment Station devotes itself to the investigation of meteoro- 

 logical phenomena as affecting plant growth, economic 

 entomology, and the practical questions of every kind 

 arising in horticulture and agriculture, while the state 

 station turns its attention to questions of analysis, food 

 rations, diseases of plants, and the like. With its accus- 

 tomed liberality the state has erected and equipped, at an 

 expense of about $30,000, a fine laboratory, and a build- 

 ing with a glass house attached, to be used exclusively for 

 the investigation of such diseases as the smut, the mildew, 

 and the scab. This station has been in existence about 

 eight years, and has recently issued its seventh annual re- 

 port, filled with information of value to the farmer. 



The Hatch Experiment Station is of more recent origin, 

 being created by an act of Congress, passed February 25, 

 1887, appropriating $15,000 annually to each state and 



1 The two Experiment Stations were united in 1895, after this paper 

 was printed. 



