The Experiment Station work is supported by both State and Fed-
eral appropriations. The Hatch Act, passed by Congress in 1887, appro-
priates $15,000 annually; the Adams Act, passed in 1906, provides
$15,000 annually; and the Purnell Act, passed in 1925, provides $60,000
annually. The State appropriation for 1930 is $74,000,
The objects, purposes, and work of the Experiment Stations as set
forth by these acts are as follows:

'•That it shall be the object and duty of said Experiment Stations to
conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of
plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject
with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful
plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages
of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the
capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils
and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial,
with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of
different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants;
the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for
domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the
production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experi-
ments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States
as may in each case lie 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, crops, 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 bus been the direct outgrowth of the work of the Experi-
ment Stations.

The 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 .V. 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 Service.
A. N, Johnson, S.B., D.Eng., Dean of the College of Engineering"•,