State Agricultural Experiment Stations: A History of Research Policy and ProcedureU.S. Department of Agriculture, 1962 - 262 pages The first part of this publication presents important background information that relates to origin of the concept of a tax-supported experiment station. Included are brief reviews of the historical development of the experiment station idea in Europe and the experiences of American agricultural leaders promoting the establishment of experiment stations in the United States. |
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... conduct of agricultural research evolved grad- ually during the past 100 years . Following passage of the Land- Grant Act , some of the farm leaders and government officials ques- tioned whether experiment stations should be a part of ...
... conduct of agricultural research evolved grad- ually during the past 100 years . Following passage of the Land- Grant Act , some of the farm leaders and government officials ques- tioned whether experiment stations should be a part of ...
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... conducted the trials would , the Directors believed , in time become responsive to new ideas , alert to find them , and ready to apply them ; farmers who experimented would , in short , catch the vital spirit of improvement . Thus the ...
... conducted the trials would , the Directors believed , in time become responsive to new ideas , alert to find them , and ready to apply them ; farmers who experimented would , in short , catch the vital spirit of improvement . Thus the ...
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... conduct of research , Professor Johnston voiced increasing dissatisfaction as he encountered bothersome ... conduct of the trials to make them worthwhile . Moreover , Johnston lost confidence in the farmer's ability to conduct home ...
... conduct of research , Professor Johnston voiced increasing dissatisfaction as he encountered bothersome ... conduct of the trials to make them worthwhile . Moreover , Johnston lost confidence in the farmer's ability to conduct home ...
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... conduct all kinds of commercial analyses . As supervisor of the school's agricultural program , Norton selected for imitation a cluster of features from his Scottish experience . Spe- cializing in soil analysis , that part of the ...
... conduct all kinds of commercial analyses . As supervisor of the school's agricultural program , Norton selected for imitation a cluster of features from his Scottish experience . Spe- cializing in soil analysis , that part of the ...
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... conduct of research , Norton traveled to the doorstep of the idea of the college - connected experiment station , in function if not in name . Norton's unfulfilled ambitions for establishing an agricultural college and an agency for ...
... conduct of research , Norton traveled to the doorstep of the idea of the college - connected experiment station , in function if not in name . Norton's unfulfilled ambitions for establishing an agricultural college and an agency for ...
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Page 218 - State, which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 219 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 221 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 227 - Stations, provided for under this subsection. "(c) Three per centum of the sums appropriated for any fiscal year under this 'section shall be available to the Office of Experiment Stations...
Page 221 - If the Secretary of the Interior shall withhold a certificate from any State or Territory of its appropriation the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next Congress, in order that the State or Territory may, if it should so desire, appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 218 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 237 - That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station...
Page 232 - ... the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time designate, or at points which may be conveniently reached therefrom, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, including payment of such fees as will be reasonable and as nearly as may be to cover the cost for the service rendered...
Page 25 - Agriculture to acquire and preserve in his Department all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments (accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office,) by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power; to collect, as he may be able, new and valuable seeds and plants...
Page 219 - When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised to double the minimum price, in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished.