Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-01
EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE.

Curators of tho State University.
The Board of Curators of the State Uni
versity at its meeting, January 81, adopt
ed the following, which is just made pub
lie:
WHEREAS, The Board of Curators of the Uni
Verslty OF the State OF Missouri, at its semi
annual meeting, held in the curators' room in
the university building in the town of Colum.
b1a, In said State, on the 10th and 18th days OF
January, 1888, resolved to organize an "Agri-
cultural Experiment station under the provi-
sions of the act of Congress of the United States
OF March 2, 1887, and entitled ian act to estab-
ilsh agricultural experiment stations in connec-
ton with the colleges established in the several
States under the provisions of an act approved
July 2. 1862, and of the acts supplementary
thereto, and did refer the organization OF said
station to the executive committee; and.
WHEREAS. 1t is the opinion of this COM
mittee that it is the intent of said act of Con-
gress OF March 9, 1887, to establish said sta
Hons not for the purpose of class instruction
Ill agriculture, but to provide for scientific in
vestlgation and experiment respecting the
principles and applications Of agricultural sci
ence, and for conveying the results thereof
directly to the people, and for conducting these
experiments ''having due regard to the varying
conditions and needs of the respective States
or Territories and
WHEREAS, The chief agricultural interests
OF Missouri are grain and stock growing, fruit
and dairy products, and the chief hindrances
to these industries are first: Unscentific and
therefore Improbable methods of tilling and i'm
proving the soil, of cultvating and utilizing the
plants and of breeding and feeding the stock
and second, lack of knowledge of insect and
fungus life, and the semi manufacturing proc
esS necessary to success in several branches
OF agriculture: therefore
ResosUsd and ordered, That the Missouri
Agricultural Experiment station be hereby and
is now organized with the view to meet the in
tentions of the acts of Congress of March 2,
1887, in accordance with the following plan and
provisions to-wit:
1. The control of the Missouri Agricultural
Experiment station Is placed in the hands Of
the Board of Curators of the University of the
State of Missouri.
2. The executive officers of the station are
director, an agriculturist, assistant chemist
and business manager, elected by the execu-
tive committee. and their successors by the
Board of Curators OF the University. Each of
these officials shall be amenable to the Board
of Curators in all things pertaining to the
duties of his office.
3. The director shall have control and direc
ton of all matters pertaining to the exper1
mental work of the station; he shall originate
and superintend the conducting of all investi
cations and experiments submitted to and APP
proved by the executive committee: he shall
direct the work of all employees and laborers OF
the station, and these shall at all times be SUBJ
ject to his orders; he shall. over his official sig
stations work to the executive committee for
publication, according to the act of Congress.
He may nominate to the Board of Curators or
executive committee an assistant chemist and
agriculturist. He may, from time to time,
at his discretion and as the means of the sta
ton will permit, engage the assistance Of any
specialist to aid in any of the Investigations
carried on. He shall receive for his services
the sum of g, 81 per annum.
q. The agriculturist shall have charge Of the
farm work required by the station: he shall
conduct such experimental work may be de-
vised and planned by the director in fertilizing
soils, preparing land for seeding or planting,
rotation of crops, treating. feeding or breeding
animals, preparing and preserving meats, grow
ing and keeping fruits, managing dairy cattle
and dairy products and all things, both special
and general, that may be required of him by the
director in the line of experimentation. He
shall receive for his services the sum of 81 200
per annum.
5. The. assistant chemist shall perform. I'M
der the superintendent of the director, all the
work assigned to him, and shall receive for his
services $1,000 per annum.
g. The business manager shall conduct all
business correspondence connected with the
fiscal affairs of the station, keep an account
of the receipts and expenditures Of money.
transact such business as may be necessary
with the departments of the Federal Govern
ment of the United States, publish all quar-
terly and annual reports required by the laws
of Congress, make annual report to the Gov
ernor of the State of Missouri. and attend to
the printing, publishing and distributing of
bulletins, approved by the executive commit
tee of the Board of Curators. He shall devise
the execute methods for promoting the gen.
eral usefulness of the station to the farmers
of Missouri; engage and employ the unskllled
labor needed by the station, and make all nee
essary purchases. He shall keep his office at
such place as the curators or the executive
may hooks shall
all times be open to their inspection he shall
make the executive committee quarterly re-
ports of all his transactions and the work of
the station on the last day of the months of
March, June. September and December of each
year. The president of the Board of Curators
shall be ex-officio the business manager of the
station, and his compensation, including that
of a secretary or clerk, selected and appointed
by himself, shall be fixed by the Board of
Curators at the June meeting, 1888.
z The officers provided for in sections 3, 4
and 5, and at the salaries affixed shall be
chosen and elected by the executive committee,
subject to the action of the Board of Curators
from and after June /, 1885,
g. All salaries to officers of the station shall
be paid quarterly, in the same manner as other
appointees of the Board of Curators paid;
other employees of the station shall be paid
monthly, as employees OF the university are
paid.
the disposal of the station by the Govern
ment OF the United States or coming
to it from any other source shall he paid to the
treasurer of the Board of Curators of the Uni
versity of the State of Missouri, and paid out
by him in the same manner by which the pay
ments of the university funds are now auth or
lied.
10. The executive committee of the Board Of
Curators will use any buildings of grounds of
the farm or garden of the Agricultural college,
or make any changes or repairs thereon that
NAV be necessary for the work of the expert
ment station and such buildings or grounds
shall be under the control of the director.
H. It shall be lawful TO the curators of the
University of Missouri, al any time when the
necessities of the require it. to elect other
assistants specialists in connection with the
proper performance of the work of the station,
and to fix the compensation and term of office
Of each.
r. There is hereby constituted an "advi sorry
council" composed of the Governor of the
State the president of the State University, the
president of the State Board of Agriculture, the
president of the Missouri Horticultural Society,
the master of the State Grange, the professor
of agriculture of the Agricultural College, and
the professor of geology at the University who
shall be admitted to the meetings OF the Board
of Curators or executive committee of the same,
for conference and consultation in matters per-
tanning to the station. provided, however, that
all business of the station shall be transacted
by the curators of the University OF Missouri or
its executive committee, upon whom the legal
responsibility for the proper administration OF
affairs is placed.
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