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nual reports must also be sent to other colleges and to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



The Hatch Act provided for an appropriation of fifteen 

 thousand dollars to be paid to each state and territory main- 

 taining an agricultural college for the purpose of establish- 

 ing a department to be known as an experiment station. 

 This sum was yearly paid to each station until 1906, when 

 the Adams Act provided an increase of five thousand dol- 

 lars and thereafter an annual increase of two thousand dol- 

 lars until the amount reached thirty thousand dollars. 



CO-ORDINATION OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT 



STATIONS 



The Office of Experiment Stations has been organized in 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture upon authority con- 

 tained in the Morrill Act of August 30, 1890, in the Hatch 

 Act of 1887, and in subsequent agricultural appropriation 

 acts, to direct the lines of inquiry among the experiment 

 stations and to receive reports from the president of each 

 land-grant college. The Office publishes the Experiment 

 Station Record which is a valuable account of the progress 

 of the stations and contains information of agricultural 

 progress in general. The relation between this office and 

 the colleges and experiment stations is of a cooperative char- 

 acter, each college and experiment station acting more or 

 less independently but in harmony with the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



The Office of the Experiment Stations provides a con- 

 necting link between all land-grant colleges and experiment 

 stations. In addition to this coordination the land-grant 

 colleges formed an organization October 18, 1887, known 

 as the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations with which the Office of Experiment 

 Stations of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the 



