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trustees of Morgan College until 1936. The State purchased it by Chapter 548, 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 recently initiated a meat and poultry inspection service as well. 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 1957, 1970 Kepi. Vol., Art. 66C, sees. 46, 110A-110A-10). 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 science 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, 1970 Repl. Vol., Art. 66C, sees. 58-60). EXTENSION SERVICE The Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Eco- nomics was established by Federal and State laws in 1914 and is sup- ported by Federal, State, and County funds (Chapter 247, Acts of 1914). Each county of the State and Baltimore City is represented by Extension Agents conducting educational programs in agricultural production and marketing, home economics, public affairs and commu- nity development, and in youth development. A State office to provide administrative direction and technical assistance is located at the Uni- versity of Maryland. Scientific and economic information related to the production and marketing of agricultural products, and home eco- nomics is provided to the people in the State; and factual information is used in the educational efforts directed to public affairs and com- munity development. The youth of the State are served through the 4-H Club program. Short Courses in various fields are also provided (Code 1957, 1970 Repl. Vol., Art. 66C, sees. 56-57). |
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