Arrangements for Publishing Journal, [april, 



To this amount £400 is to be added each year for five years, 

 after which an appropriation of £3,000 is to be made annually. 

 Thus, in 1911, and each year thereafter, each State will receive 

 £3,000, in addition to the £3,000 hitherto granted under the 

 Hatch Act. 



The new Act considers that the stations are thoroughly 

 organized and equipped, and therefore has for its sole object 

 the extension and strengthening of the experimental work. 

 The additional funds are "to be applied only to paying the 

 necessary expenses of conducting original researches or ex- 

 periments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the 

 United States." The Secretary of Agriculture, in com- 

 menting in his Report for 1906 on the Act, observes that 

 the Adams fund is thus essentially a research fund, 

 and if properly used should produce results of the 

 greatest and most permanent value to American agri- 

 culture. The State experiment stations have already per- 

 formed service of great value. They have done much to secure 

 radical and widespread improvements in agricultural practice ; 

 they have contributed in a large measure to the creation of a 

 new American literature of agriculture, and made it available 

 to every farmer ; they have collected much of the material 

 from which a science of agriculture is being formulated as the 

 basis for the instruction of successive generations of farmers 

 in colleges, schools and farmers' institutes. Pressure of work 

 in other directions has limited the amount of original research, 

 but the Adams fund will now enable development to take 

 place in that direction. Apart from the revenue received from 

 the National Treasury, grants are made to the stations by the 

 respective States and by local bodies. 



The Journal of the Board of Agriculture will in future be 

 obtainable direct from the offices of the Board at the following 

 New Arrangements rates of subscription :-Three months, 

 for Publishing 1S ' ' Slx months > 2S - ! twelve months, 4s. ; 

 the Journal 01 ma ^ ^ e oro ^ erea ^ through any book- 

 seller or railway bookstall, from the Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries, or from the agents, Wyman and 

 Sons, Ltd., Fetter Lane, E.C. ; Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh; 

 or E. Ponsonby, 116, Grafton Street, Dublin. 



