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as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the
varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories."
The Purnell Act also permits the appropriation to be used for con-
ducting investigations and making experiments bearing on the manu-
facture, preparation, use, distribution, and marketing of agricultural
products, and for such economic and sociological investigations as have
for their purpose the development and improvement of the rural home
and rural life.
The Maryland Station, in addition to the work conducted at the
University, operates a sub-station farm of fifty acres at Ridgely, Caro-
line County, and a farm of about sixty acres at Upper Marlboro for
tobacco investigations. Experiments in co-operation with farmers are
conducted at many different points in the State. These tests consist of
studies with soils, fertilizers, creeps, orchards, insect and plant disease
control, and stock feeding,
The results of the Experiment Station work during the past quarter
of a century have developed a science of agriculture to teach, and have
laid a broad and substantial foundation for agricultural development.
The placing of agricultural demonstrations and extension work on a
national basis Iras been the direct outgrowth of the work of the Experi-
ment Stations.
Tire students taking courses in agriculture are kept in close touch
with the investigations in progress.
The Eastern Branch.
The Eastern Branch of the University of Maryland is located at
Princess Anne, Somerset county, it is maintained for the education
of negroes in agriculture and the mechanic arts.
The University Senate
Raymond A. Pearson, M.S., D.Agr., LL.D., President of the University.
H. C. Byrd, B.S... Assistant to the President; Director of Athletics.
H. J. Patterson, D.Sc... Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station:
Dean of the College of Agriculture.
T. B. Symons, M.S., D.Agr., Director of the Extension Sen ice.
A. N. Johnson, S.B., D.Eng., Dean of the College of Engineering'.
T. H. Taliaferro, C.E., Ph.D., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
J. M. H. Rowland, M.D., Dean of the School of Medicine.
Henry D. Harlan, LL.D., Dean of the School of Law.
Robert H. Freeman, A.M., LL.B., Assistant Dean of the School (if Law.
E. Frank Kelly, Phar.D., Advisory Dean of the School of Pharmacy.
Andrew G. DuMez, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Pharmacy.
T. O. Heatwole, M.D.. D.D.S., Secretary of the Baltimore Schools.
J. Ben Robinson, D.D.S., Dean of the School of Dentistry.
W. S. Small, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Education.
M. Marie Mount, M.A., Dean of the College of Home Economics.
C. O. Appleman, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School.
Adele H. Stamp, M.A., Dean of Women.
R. S. Lytle, Major Inf., Head of fire Department of Military Science
and Tactics.
W. B. Kemp, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Agronomy.
County Agricultural Agents—Maryland
County. Name. Headquarters.
Allegany...... .... ................ .................R. F.McHenry.......... ...................... Cumberland
Anne Arundel...... ..........................S. E. Day............................................Annapolis
Baltimore.................... ...............................H. B. Derrick ... ....................... ... . ....... . ..Towson
Calvert.......... .................... ....................John B. Morsell................... Prince Frederick
Caroline.. ........................................................T, D. Holder.... ............................................Denton
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