Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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We Experiment Station IQMOST from its earliest history agricultural experimentation has been carried on at the College, and Professor Shelton published three pamphlets describing experiments from 1883 to 1885. Experiments in horticulture and forestry were begun also at an early date. The Experiment Station was not established, however, until i888 under the provisions of the Hatch Act. The Station receives an income of 815,000 per annum from the general govern- ment, which has not been directly supplemented by state appropriations as yet, though in many other states large appropriations have been made. Notwith- standing the smallness of the available funds, the work of the Station is held in high esteem throughout the country. A few years since an investigation by an officer of another institution showed that the Kansas Station, in the judgment of station workers, was one of four publishing the best bulletins of all. The investigations of the Experiment Station have covered a wide range, but in almost every aspect have been characterized by their practical bearing. Testing of new crops, trees and fruits, or new varieties of old ones, feeding experiments of all kinds, plant breeding, observations and experiments in animal and plant diseases have been part of the work of the Station. One hundred and thirty-four bulletins have been issued and the 25,000 copies of each now printed barely meet the requirements of the mailing list. In 1900, Congress passed an act ceding to Kansas the Fort Hays military reservation in Ellis county, in part for a branch Experiment Station. Wcmrk began in the Spring of 1902, and the accomplishment of four years is a surprise to visitors. The State made liberal appropriations and will doubtless continue them. ln recent years the Experiment Station has been entering more and more upon cooperative work with the United States Department of Agriculture. The most important line has been in the direction of cereal improvement. For this purpose the Station now leases thirty acres at McPherson, and similar work is carried on at the Fort Hays branch. Cooperative irrigation investigations. and investigations of grasses and forage plants have also been made. A very important series of cooperative experiments in crop rotation and moisture and humus-con- servation has been inaugurated at Hays, and is expected to continue fo1' many years. The latest re-enforcement of the Station work is the passage of the Adams bill creating a new fund for research to supplement the Hatch fund. Under this act 85,000 will be available the next fiscal year, and amounts increasing by 32,000 annually each year thereafter until the annual appropriation reaches 815,000 Thus in five years the annual income of the Station will have become double what it is at present. It is believed that much good will result from this. The bulletins of the Stations are sent free to persons engaged in farming who apply. 2.9

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The Horses

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