University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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sponsors resennli ()ik )Ugli its Extension Sn ire luid I ' xpcriniont .Stat ion in addition to planning the atadeniic curricula of its various departments. Dr. T. B. Symons, director of the Extension Service, lias issued a report citing the adjustment iiiiulr by farmers over a several year period in wardnic production lo llic job of producing ciKiiigl food for llic counlrN as M as a surplus for under supplied Europe. Particular adjustniciils wm- laiidci in the marketing of Maryland tobacco, in llic increased output of farm machinery and farm buildings, in Ihr jiroduction of poultry, and in the battle against insecls. An investigation conducted by Dr. Mary Shorb. ,i microbiologist in the Poultry Department, has reveal a growth factor hitherto unknown. The new comiioiii has shown posili c rcsiills in llic treatmeiil of anemia. The Agriculture College ilself as llic lirs United States when it received its charter f State Legislature in 1856. Since then it has grea increased the opportunities for a technical agricultu education; the college now ofTers curricula in general farming, dairying, fruit or vegetable growing, stock production, poultry husbandry, field croi production, floriculture, and allied scientific courses

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