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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 cnarge of a Station Council, made up of the Presi- 

 dent of the College, the Director of the Station, the heads of the 

 various departments of the Station, three members of the 

 Trustees and a representative from the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, the State Pomological Society and the State Grange. 



The Station Council meets once a year and out of town mem- 

 bers have their travelling expenses paid. 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 

 tne 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. 



RELATION OF THE STATION TO THE UNIVERSITY. 



When the legislature accepted the Hatch grant, it made the 

 Experiment Station a part of the University. As the University 

 is a state institution, it (including the Experiment Station) is 

 under the same inspection as other departments of the State. 

 The agriculture of the University is organized as the College 

 of Agriculture, and includes both the instruction in agriculture 

 and the work of investigation. The Professor in charge of the 

 College of Agriculture is also the Station Director. Formerly 

 the Experiment Station had a farm of about thirty acres and the 

 remainder of the land was under the management of the Uni- 



