The Holt County sentinel., 1888-07-27
The Experimental Station,

At Columbia, Missouri. for which $4,000 per
annum was set apart by congress, WAS organ-
ized by the Board Of Curators Of the University
of the State on the 10th and 18th days Of Janu-
AIRY. 1883. in the following manner:
Ist The control of said Station Is placed in |
the hands of the Board OF Curators Of the Uni !
versity Of Missouri
End The executive of!icers Of the station are
Il director. an agricu!tnrist. an assistant chem
Isl and IL business manager elected by ,h.. eX-
ecu;ive committee. and their successors by The
Board Of Cu-;,tnrs If the University, all on sal
aries vi from $50 to $3.50 per year. One put
his son in lis :,;icul;uri>t and SECRETARY. and
another had his son made the chemist of the
station. These appointments made So much
! talk at Columbia that they re- organized, and
one Of the Curarurs, Rev. W. I. l.stln;.n. put
himself in rs business manager 1T salary Of
SI,5VO an, had his son made the secretary with
Il salary of 500 or $500.
Dorsey Moss who was made chemist at iirst.
! was now put III is agriculturst. The expert
merits have been confined 10 corn, and nlan-
, aged III such way rs to be utterly useless SO
f..r is any incrc;ee of knowledge is to be hoped
for. As sample of what they started ont TO
do, and to show far they are behind the times. I
give one item from their own Bulletin. No. !, p.
II:
Whether or not the corn, and presumably
all ANNALS terminate their period Of growth at
or soon afteI fertilization, and take subsequent
ly from air, nothing but water and oxygen. and
whether or not such plants store the products
of assnilativc and metamorphic physiological
processes wholly. in the seed and leave their
dried bodies comparatively worthless for feed
Ing purposes"
.,tF,,r TO-, f.,N .,,yl
of wisdom for the poor ignorant farmers of Nils
sour. And yet where Will You find one Of our
farmers 50 ignorant As not to know that his corn
does not store all Of its nutrition IN the ear and
leave the fodder worthless. II has long since
Leen proven by careful scientific tests that one
ton Of well cIirci coru fodder Is equal in yauc
) TO tlIree-iuur,hs ef Il ton of Timothy hay. And
vet the foregoing Is = sample of the work gOn,
on at our experimental station. $4,000 has III
ready been expended. and the balance Of the
} $iJGtD, On the statement OF III least two Of the
. | CuraturS, Is forfeited to the G"yerAinenf, fol
no. having been drawn prior to July lSt. the
law provides. Entomology and horticulture
were wholly ignored. and the money :l> fdr ils
$ spent in 4 useless and disgusiinsiy manner.
This condition Of things led To the appoint.
mrnt of committee al our June meeting vi tlIt
State Horticultural Society, held al Oregon, thi:
5 year, 10 20 before the Boari of CuratoTS. anc
4 ask for a reorganization of Ihe Experiments,
= Station. This committee consisted oi }. Z Ev
ans. l.. \. Goodman and n I. Murray.
u We went before the Board of CuTators on III,
5th of July. Our request Was accetcd To SO ii
as reorganization is concerned, but thai Is iIu
all sufficient. We wish, am! have right to de
i maLd. by the text Of the Hatch Law, y H"rti
= cultural Department CONNECTED with The Sta
lion. headed ny Il -ri-iIiIiic AMI prtctc hnr
tIcTiiugIa Also Il Er,t-ci;>S cI;tJnioi".i,t. NJ
only the fruii crowcrs but the farmers vi Mis-
: souri,. lose ANNUALLY millions oi dollars by la
r ray.,geS of insects and We can Eo longer iiftr'
to be without acninretcnt rntonIr."-i>t con
: ntcted with the Experimental St'.;inn. "
e shall wait ALL. see Ii VI "'t our r!silS. Ii hu;
= expect ID hear from III again
y. +. MURRAY. Of Committee.