crop and livestock production and in the household arts. The 4-H Club
work, moreover, affords rural boys and girls a very real opportunity to
develop the qualities of self-confidence, perseverance, and leadership.

The Extension Service works in accord with all other hrancbes of
the University of Maryland and with all agencies of the United States
Department of Agriculture. It co-operates with all farm and community
organizations in the State which have as their major object the im-
provement of agriculture and rural life; nnd it aids in every way possi
ble in making effective the regulatory work and other measures insti-
tuted by the State Board of Agriculture.

General Extension.
This phase of the extension service of the University is conducted
in co-operation with the United States Bureau of Education and is in-
tended to make the Liberal Arts and branches of the curriculum, other
than Agriculture and Home Economics, of greater service to the people
of the State.

Agricultural Experiment Station.
The agricultural work of the University naturally comprises three
fields: research, instruction, and extension. The Agricultural Experi-
ment Station is the research agency of the University, which has for its
purpose the increase of knowledge relating to agriculture, primarily for
the direct benefit of the farmer. It is also the real source of agricul-
tural information for use in the classroom and for demonstrations in
the field.

The Experiment Station work is supported by both State and FedS
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, nnd 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 gro%vth; 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 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 he 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