ducted by the boys and girls themselves. These demonstrations, under
supervision of the county and home demonstration agents, are the best
possible means of imparting to youthful minds valuable information in
crop and livestock production and in the household arts. The 4-H Club
work, morever, affords rural boys and girls a very real opportunity
to develop the qualities of self-confidence, perseverance, and leader-
ship.

The Extension Service works in accord with all other branches of
the University of Maryland and with all agencies of the United States
Department of Agriculture. It co-operates with all farm and commu-
nity organizations in the State which have as their major object the
improvement of agriculture and rural life; and it aids in every way
possible in making effective the regulatory work and other measures
instituted 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, pri-
marily for the direct benefit of the farmer. It is also the real source
of agricultural information for use in the classroom and for demon-
strations in the field.

The Experiment Station work is supported by both State and Fed-
eral appropriations. The Hatch Act, passed by Congress in 1887,
appropriates $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 Bankhead-Jones Act, passed in 1935, eventually will
provide aproximately $35,000 annually. The State appropriation for
1935 is $48,600.

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 in-
volved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other re-
searches or experiments 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."