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prove to be the case, owing to the failure of Congress to appro- 

 priate money, and had not the College assumed the risk of 

 advancing the funds to pay the expenses of the Station, work 

 would have ceased on the date in which the old station law 

 stood repealed. As it was, work was continued until January, 

 1888, when the station force disbanded to await the action of 

 Congress. It was not until after the passage of the deficiency 

 bill early in February, 1888, the funds became available for the 

 payment of the expenses of the year 1887-1888. Prior to this, 

 the Maijie Legislature of 1887 had accepted the provisions of 

 the Hatch Act on the part of the State, and at the meeting of 

 the College Trustees in June, 1887, the present Station was 

 organized as a department of the College by the election of a 

 director and two other members of the staff of officers. 



At a meeting of the trustees, held February 16, 1888, a gen- 

 eral plan for carrying out the provisions of the Hatch Act, 

 involving the expenditure of $15,000 per annum, was presented 

 to the Board of Trustees and was accepted by them, and the 

 development and management of the Station under this plan 

 was placed in the charge of a Station Council, made up of the 

 President of the College, the Director of the Station, the iieads 

 of the various departments of the Station, three members of 

 the Trustees and a representative from each of the State agri- 

 culture organizations. 



The Station Council meets once a year. At this meeting, the 

 Director and other members of the station staff outline the 

 work which has been undertaken in the past year and make 

 recommendations for the following year. Such of these as 

 commend themselves to the Station Council as well as sugges- 

 tions from that body are approved and the Director is instructed 

 to carry them out in detail. The appointment of members 

 of the staff is made by the Trustees, and the recommendations 

 of the Council are subject to their approval. 



The Director is the executive officer of ,the Station and 

 passes upon all matters of business. The members of the staff 

 have charge of the lines of work which naturally come under 

 their departments. 



The Station has published 25 Annual Reports, aggregating 

 5500 pages, over 200 bulletins ranging from a single page to 

 75 pages or more, and nearly 400 miscellaneous publications, 

 chiefly circulars of information. Space will not permit an 

 enumeration of the lines of work undertaken and reported. 



