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84 MARYLAND MANUAL Avenue. This campus is being developed to encompass the full four- year course range for the programs offered. The UMBC Graduate Center offers graduate level courses for part- time students to meet the area need. Maryland State College.Division of the University of Maryland The Maryland State College, Division of the University of Maryland (formerly Princess Anne College), is a state supported land-grant college. It offers courses leading to a bachelor's degree in agriculture, home economics, industrial and mechanical arts, and liberal arts and sciences. The external government and control is vested in the Board of Regents of the University of Maryland and the Maryland State Board of Agriculture. The College was founded in 1886 as the preparatory branch of the Centenary Bible Institute, chartered in 1867 and renamed Morgan College in 1890. The preparatory branch was known as the Delaware Conference Academy. By the Morrill Act of 1890, the College received federal funds and became known as the Princess Anne Academy, or "Eastern Branch" of the Maryland Agricultural College. In 1919, by agreement with Morgan College, the University of Maryland assumed control of the College, although it remained in the hands of the trustees of Morgan College until 1936. The State purchased it by Chapter 648, Acts of 1935. STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE The Board of Regents of the University of Maryland acts as the State Board of Agriculture. As such, the Board administers the State laws relating to a number of service and control programs. These programs include the State weights and measures law; livestock disease control; plant pest control; mosquito control; inspection, grad- ing and promotion of agricultural commodities; soil conservation and drainage; inspection laws relating to seed, feed, fertilizer, pesticides, liming materials, and methods of weighing, sampling and testing of milk. The State Board publishes a bi-monthly publication AGRICUL- TURAL REVIEW to disseminate information to farm suppliers, and to producers, processors and marketers of farm products. The Board also publishes numerous bulletins and pamphlets dealing with various subjects. (Code 1967, 1967 Repl. Vol., Art. 66C, sees. 46-60). AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION The Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station was established following passage of the Federal Hatch Act in 1887 making available to the states grants-in-aid for the conduct of research pertaining to agriculture. Both State and Federal funds are appropriated for its support. The main location is on the University campus at College Park. Here laboratories for research in the animal and plant sciences are located and administrative headquarters as well as provisions for the maintenance of experimental herds, flocks, field and tree plots and for investigations on soils, insect and disease control (Chapter 55, Acts of 1888). Several outlying farms are maintained for research purposes. These experimental farms include the Tobacco Experimental Farm at Upper Marlboro; the Dairy-Agronomy Research Farm near Ellicott City, devoted to dairy and related forage studies; the Poultry-Vege- table Research Farm at Salisbury, for studies on broiler and vegetable problems; and the Livestock Experimental Farm near Waterloo for research with cattle and swine. These different locations support and supplement the programs of research at the main station (Code 1957, 1967 Repl. Vol., Art. 66C, sees. 68-60). |
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