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and is broadening its programs to better serve
more people. This has meant adjusting resources
to give more attention to such concerns as farm
management, marketing, safety, waste disposal,
pollution abatement, land use, human develop-
ment, consumer competence, money management,
low income programs in nutrition and health,
work with the aging, the handicapped, and disad-
vantaged and urban youth.

In its role as the "off-campus out-of-class-
room" arm of the University of Maryland, the
Extension Service uses a number of different
methods to provide educational programs, includ-
ing personal consultations, direct mail, publica-
tions, radio, television, workshops, institutes, and
short courses.

One of the strengths of the Extension Service is
its uniquely effective system of educational re-
sources information. Offices and staffs in all
twenty-three Maryland counties and Baltimore
City bring the University of Maryland close to
the people. Field staffs rely on campus extension
specialists to provide up-to-date, meaningful in-
formation. State administrative offices and most
specialists are on the University's College Park
Campus (UMCP). There is now federal funding
for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore
(UMES) component of Cooperative Extension.
UMES carries special responsibility in Coopera-
tive Extension for programs relating to small and
part-time farmers, housing education, the Span-
ish-speaking population, and youth programs for
new and previously unreached clientele.

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
STATION

Symons Hall
University of Maryland
College Park 20742 Telephone: 454-3707

The Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station
was established following passage of the federal
Hatch Act in 1887. The Act made available to
the states grants-in-aid for the conduct of re-
search pertaining to agriculture. Now both State
and federal funds support these activities. Admin-
istrative headquarters are located on the College
Park Campus, as well as laboratories for research
in the animal and plant sciences, agricultural en-
gineering, agricultural and resource economics,
rural sociology, and home and consumer econom-
ics. Provisions are made for maintenance of ex-
perimental herds, flocks, field and tree plots, and
for investigations of soils and insect and disease
control (Chapter 55, Acts of 1888, as amended).

Research is conducted at eleven locations
throughout the State, with particular attention to

the type of farming dominant in the respective lo-
cations. These include the Plant Research Farm
near Fairland in Montgomery County, the Tobac-
co Research Farm near Upper Marlboro in
Prince George's County, and ornamental fruit re-
search at the Sharpsburg Research Center in
Washington County, the Agronomy-Dairy Forage
Farm near Ellicott City, the Horse Research Cen-
ter near Jessup in Howard County, and the Beef
Research Center at Springfield in Carroll County.
Research on vegetables, corn, soybeans, and oth-
er field crops is conducted at the Wye Research
and Education Center in Queen Anne's County,
the Poplar Hill Research Farm, the Salisbury Re-
search Substation in Wicomico County, and the
University's College Park and Eastern Shore
Campuses. Broiler production research is also
conducted at the Salisbury Research Substation.

In 1982, the University and the Maryland Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station initiated the Center
for Advanced Agricultural Concepts at the Wye
Research and Education Center. This program
stresses a multi-discipline approach to research
and concentrates on bringing a combination of
resources to bear on the challenges to agriculture.
The program includes six major research areas: 1)
integrated pest management; 2) cattle breeding
and genetics; 3) plant breeding and genetics; 4)
energy development, use, and conservation; 5)
quality of life studies; and 6) interaction of land
and water. The Center for Advanced Agricultural
Concepts seeks as one of its major goals the rap-
id dissemination of important research informa-
tion to agricultural leaders, scientists, scholars,
and the general public.

The U. S. Department of Agriculture supports
agricultural research at both the College Park and
Eastern Shore Campuses. Farms and facilities for
research are available to faculty on both of these
campuses.

CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
AND ESTUARINE STUDIES

Administrative Offices
Box 775
Cambridge 21613 Telephone: 228-9250
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
Box 35
Solomons 20688 Telephone: 326-4281

Joint UM/DNR Shellfish Biology Program
Box 351
Crisfield 21817 Telephone: 968-1655

Appalachian Environmental Laboratory
Frostburg State College
Gunter Hall
Prostburg 21532 Telephone: 689-3115