Iso. 4.] AVOKK OF COLLEGE AND STATION. 187 



WOEK OF THE AGEICULTURAL COLLEGE AND HATCH 

 EXPERIMENT STATION. 



BY PROF. AVM. P. BROOKS, AMHERST. 



The consideration of my subject naturally falls under two 

 heads, — College and Station ; and yet at the outset I desire 

 to point out that these two are by no means entirely inde- 

 pendent. I have gathered the impression, through contact 

 with leading farmers throughout the State, that there is some 

 misapprehension in regard to the relations of college and 

 stations. The State Experiment Station is managed under 

 an entirely separate and independent organization, and is 

 supported by the State ; but the Hatch Experiment Station, 

 organized under the so-called Hatch act, is organically con- 

 nected with the college, and is supported by an annual grant 

 of money from the United States government. 



The State station has separate grounds, leased for a nomi- 

 nal sum from the college, and has its own buildings. The 

 Hatch Experiment Station makes use of the grounds of the 

 college estate in so ftir as land for experimental purposes is 

 required, and, although it has a few inexpensive buildings 

 devoted exclusively to its work, it makes continual use of 

 college buildings for some of its purposes. 



The State Experiment Station has its own working library, 

 thouo;h the members of its staff also make constant use of 

 the college library. The Hatch Station has no separate 

 library ; that portion of its funds utilized for books contril)- 

 uting to the upbuilding of the general agricultural library of 

 the college, which is availal^le for experiment station work- 

 ers, college professors and students alike. 



The advantages to both of this close union of college and 

 station are several. As to station, it would have been im- 



