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SCIENCE AND THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS It is only about twenty-five years since Congress passed the Hatch act founding the system of agricultural experiment stations in this country. This act, supplemented by subsequent legislation, has brought the annual federal grant to each state up to 30, 000, a nucleus to which the states themselves have in many cases added contributions in a liberal way. Those less familiar with the work which is actually accomplished by means of these great research foundations often think of it solely as an attempt to further the interests of the practical farmer. Indeed, the institutions were founded "to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science"; but the trusts have been broadly administered, and the scope of the work extends far beyond the boundaries of the farm into the most diverse phases of human activity and concern. In more than one
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