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sted, near London, his world-famous model station 

 for the investigation of problems relating to plant- 

 nutrition. It should be remembered, however, that 

 Lawes had been experimenting since 1834, and hence 

 the Rothamsted Station has been called the oldest 

 agricultural station in the world. In 1849 Emil Wolff 

 founded at Mockern in Saxony the first agricultural 

 station in Germany, and by 1876 there were no fewer 

 than sixty-two such stations in successful operation in 

 the German Empire. The first agricultural experiment 

 station in America was established at Middletown in 

 1875, in the chemical laboratory of Wesleyan Univer- 

 sity. The Massachusetts station was among the earli- 

 est if not the earliest to be associated with a 

 land-grant college, and the second the Connecticut 

 station at New Haven, established in 1877, being the 

 first to be incorporated in the United States. But 

 it should not be forgotten that field and feeding experi- 

 ments were carried on in the sixties at both the Michi- 

 gan and the Pennsylvania State Colleges at the 

 former by Robert C. Kedzie and Manly Miles, at the 

 latter by Evan Pugh, then fresh from Rothamsted and 

 the first president and professor of chemistry of the 

 Pennsylvania State College. 



The Trustees, gladly accepting the gift of Professor 

 Stockbridge, at once appointed a committee con- 

 sisting of President Clark, Professor Stockbridge, 

 Professor Goessmann, Secretary Flint, and Hon. 

 Richard Goodman with full power to act as the 

 managers of the station. 



Subjects for scientific observation and investigation 



