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1028 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 23,
supply this instruction. The Committee have intended
to visit this Eastern Branch, as it is called, but have
been prevented by other Legislative duties. The con-
tract between the College and this Academy is liberal
and has been approved by the officials at Washington.
The annual report of the College, recently published,
gives an account of this Branch, and it appears that it
is in a flourishing condition and doing creditable work,
although greatly in need of a proper building to ac-
commodate the industrial departments.
The Agricultural Experiment Station is a depart-
ment of the College, but has a separate support and its
affairs are kept as distinct as possible. A variety of
work is constantly in progress there, the nature and
results of which can be seen from the periodical pub
lications of the Station. This branch of the institu-
tion seems to be well arranged and fitted out for its
peculiar line of duty, and its extensive correspond-
ence and growing mailing-list attest the interest taken
in this work by farmers in all parts of the State.
Laws enacted by the General Assembly in 1886 and
1890, reparding the inspection and analysis of the
commercial fertilizers made and sold in the State, for
the information of buyers and consumers of those arti-
ticles, imposed heavy and expensive chemical work
upon the Agricultural College. It was intended that
the law, as revised in 1890, should create a sufficient
revenue to cover most of the expenses necessitated by
it. An error made in engrossing the law of 1890, so
reduced the revenue from it that the College has been
obliged to draw heavily upon its other funds to carry
out its duties. This is hardly fair, and indeed, the
College has no right to divert funds provided for edu-
cational purposes to an object so different. The fer-
tilizer work is regarded, however, as important and valu-
able to the farmers of the State and they are much,
interested in it. This special duty the College appears
to have done carefully and well. It was neces-
sary to its proper execution to build a chemical labora-
tory separated entirely from the department of instruc-
tion and exclusively for the fertilizer examinations.
The building, not yet completed, has a ten-foot
brick basement, on a hillside, and two stories of wood
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