TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES OF THE 

 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



The act establishing the Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion and Fertilizer Control was signed by Hon. Frederick Robie, 

 then Governor of Maine, March 3, 1885. Therefore, the Sta- 

 tion was 25 years old on the 3rd of March, 1910. It seemed 

 wiser, however, to hold the anniversary exercises in connection 

 with Farmers' Week at the University of Maine. For this 

 reason the day selected was Wednesday, March 9, 1910. The 

 exercises were held in the Chapel of the University. There 

 was a large attendance of the friends of the Station and among 

 them many who had long been acquainted with its work. The 

 Director of the Experiment Station presided. The proceedings 

 follow. 



The; Proceedings. 



Director Woods — I am very glad, friends, that you are here 

 with us this afternoon to help us celebrate the twenty-fifth 

 anniversary of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. It 

 if a little difficult to realize that with agriculture, the oldest of 

 the arts, it is so comparatively recently that any very definite 

 work either in the way of instruction or investigation has been 

 undertaken. The first American College of Agriculture cele- 

 brated its fiftieth anniversary about two years ago. It will be 

 two years before the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the 

 Act which established the land grant colleges. It was only 

 about 60 years ago that a body of German farmers got together 

 and decided that they needed the help of investigation along 

 agricultural lines in order to solve the problems by which they 

 were confronted. This led to the establishment of the first 

 agricultural experiment station in the world at the village of 

 Moeckcrn just outside of the city of Leipzig in the province 

 of Saxony, Germany. 



