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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION Associated with tlie State College is the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station. This Station was established by an Act of Congress, (Hatch Act i, passed in 1S 7. and supplemented by another act. i Adams Acti, passed in lJMUJ. In 1!)!’.“) rlie Cnited Stales Congress passed the Purnell Act which provides still further support for the agricultural experiment station. These Acts define and limit the work of the Agricultural Experiment Station. It must be directed towards the solving of the agricultural problems of the state and making that industry more profitable to those engaged in it. The appropriations from the federal government have been supplemented by state appropriations. Df.ax Linkield It can easily be seen that the experiment station covers a very large field if we will stop to consider that it operates under twelve departments, namely: Agronomy, Animal Husbandry. Poultry, Horticulture. Agricultural Engineering. Chemistry, Entomology. Botany and Bac leriologv, Veterinarv, Agricultural Economics, and Home Economic Itural Life. The College and Experiment Station farm consists of 3-0 acres of irrigated land adjoining the campus, and the Fort Ellis farm of about 000 acres of non irrigated land, some four miles out. Well equipj ed laboratories are also provided for the various departments, while all the farm buildings are arranged so as to facilitate the experiments with livestock. The equipment and facilities of the Experiment Station are available to a limited number of students for graduate work. The great variation in the climate of the state makes necessary the estab lishment of branch stations to study the crop possibilities and livestock prob lems of various sections of the state. At present five such stations are in op elation, viz: In the Judith Basin, near Moccasin; in the Yellowstone valley near Huntley: in northern Montana, near Havre: P. S. Range Livestock Ex peri men t Station at Miles City, and in the Bitter Root Valley, near Corvallis The last station is for the study of fruit and garden crops only. While not covering all the climatic regions of the state, these branch stations afford op portunity for more complete study of the state's agricultural possibilities and particularly of the crops adapted to particular sections of the state. The results of the studies and observations made by the station staffs are published in bulletins, circulars, leaflets, posters, etc. They are distributed free of cost to the people of the state who apply for them. Sugar Beets
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AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION Director Tayi.ok The ’ooperative Extension Service of the Mon-t;m;i Stare College and the Uni ted States Depart-ment of Agriculture was organized as the last of three principal divisions of the College, to conduct extension work defined in the Smith-Lever Act of May s. lliu. as follows: “Sec. 2. That cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist o! the giving of instruction an«l practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economies to persons not attending or resident in said college in the several communities, and imparting To such persons information on said subjects through field demonstrations, publications, and otherwise; and this work shall be carried on in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the state agricultural college or colleges receiving the benefits of the Act.” Extension agents are the local representatives of the State College and the United States I epartment of Agriculture, and the local people wherever extension work is carried on cooperatively. These extension workers are public teachers paid with money largely raised from all of the people by taxation, and ore charged with giving instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics. Extension work deals not only with agricultural production, hut also with economic problems, including marketing and cooperative associations, and with the interests of the farm, home and rural community. The extension service, including the extension agent, is as much interested in the marketing, distribution. and utilization of farm products as ii is in production, and it may properly give information and help in all of these lines. The Extension Service in each state is under the administrative management of the director, who is the joint representative of the College and the department of Agriculture. Under the Director are State Supervisors, the Extension Specialists and County Extension Agents. The Extension Director is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with county boards of commissioners with reference to financial support for the maintenance of extension work in the county and the plans for the use of the cooperative funds in the The 1 Federal farm census credits Montana with Ki.000 farms. of this number better than 34.ort0 or more than To per cent of the total farms in the state, are located within counties that are now served by county extension agents. During a | eriod of fourteen years extension work in Montana lias developed from three extension agents to a total of forty, including both men and women agents located in thirty-two counties.
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