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director and two other members of the staff of officers. It only 

 remained, after the funds had become available, for the trustees to 

 take such steps as were necessary to put the Station into actual 

 operation, which they did at a meeting on Februar^^ 16, 1888. 



EELATIOX OF THE STATIOX TO THE COLLEGE. 



The act of Congress establishing the Station, creates it as a 

 department of the college, which stands in the same relation to the 

 trustees and president as any other department. At the same time, 

 such are the peculiar conditions under which this department is 

 created, and so essential is it for the college to be able to show that 

 the congressional appropriation is applied according to the intent of 

 the law, it seems necessary for the management of the Exper- 

 iment Station to be more fully distinct and separate than is 

 the case with the other departments of the college. 



At a meeting of delegates of agricultural colleges and experiment 

 stations held in Washington, D. C, Oct. 18-20, 1887, resolutions 

 were adopted, a brief summary of which is given below : 



1st. All the appropriations under the "Hatch bill" should be 

 wholly applied to agricultural research and experiment, and not to 

 the general uses of the college. 



2d. These stations should be so far separate and distinct from 

 the colleges that it will be possible to show at any time that the 

 funds have been used according to the intent of the law. 



3d. Every department known as an experiment station should 

 be distinctly organized with a recognized official head, whose time 

 shall be chiefly devoted to this department. 



It is believed that the plan of organization upon which this 

 Station has entered is in conformity to the letter and spirit of these 

 resolutions. It is true that some members of the faculty of the 

 college will divide their time between station work and the instruc- 

 tion of students, but in all cases, increased assistance will be 

 provided to compensate for added duties, and in no instance will 

 the Station funds be used to pay for time devoted to teaching. 



ORGANIZATION AND WORK OF THE STATIOX. 



At the meeting of the trustees mentioned above a general plan for 

 carrying out the provisions of the "Hatch bill," involving the expen- 

 diture of $15,000 per annum, was presented to the board of trustees, 

 and was accepted by them, aud the development and management 

 of the Station under this plan was placed in the immediate charge 



