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experimental and research purposes have been as- 

 signed by the legislature to tlie State College of Agri- 

 culture, except tbe sum mentioned above, that grants 

 the franking privilege to the State Station at Geneva. 

 This is called the Cornell Agricultural Experiment 

 Station and the investigations are conducted by the 

 staff of tlie College of Agriculture at Ithaca. The 

 funds appropriated under the Hatch Act of 1888, 

 by which the sum of $15,000 is available from the 

 federal government, are used by the several depart- 

 ments according to the designation of the Director 

 of the Station, who is also Dean of the College, in 

 the conduct of experiments and investigations, and is 

 the basis of the bulletins issued from time to time. 

 In 190G this appropriation was supplemented by a 

 second federal enactment appropriating funds to the 

 several states known as the Adams Act and designed 

 to stimulate the deeper and more fundamental lines 

 of investigation and research relating to agriculture, 

 in distinction from the experimental and local work 

 that might be carried under the Hatch Act. This lat- 

 ter act recognized the need for fundamental investi- 

 gations into the facts and principles underlying agri- 

 cultural practice of general rather than local applica- 

 tion. The sum assigned to the Cornell Station is 

 used for investigations in three lines: soil technolosrv, 

 plant-breeding, and economic entomology. Certain 

 members of the staff in these departments give prac- 

 tically their entire time to such investigations. 



Under the stimulus of these two funds, in addition 

 to the encouragement given to investigation by the 



