The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-26

Washington, April 2.--(Special)-Mr' James Long Farmer of Tennessee has gone to St. Louis to secure space for the largest exhibit ever made by the agrlcui- tural experiment stations Of the uhlleu States. This exhibit will be Of especlai interest and practical value, not oniy to the farmers throughout this hemisphere' but 1t will show visiting foreigners what marvellous progress this country has made in the science of agriculture. Ihe ,mnortanee of the enterprise justifies brief historical resume and outline or the plan of the exhibit
 Sixty-fve lard-grant colleges and uni versities receive the benefits of the acts of congress of 1862, 1887 and 1S9O These institutions represent the investment or over $67, ,OcO, 900, with an annual income or over ST .OoO, 0O0 They generally maintain departments of instruction in agrieul- ture and mechanic arts. The number Of teachers in the faculties of agriculture and mechanic arts is over 20oO, having Ill charge the instruction of nearly zQooV students.
 The total number of experiment sta- tions in the United States is 6o These institutions have an annual income or over $1, 200, 900, and employ In the Work of administration and inquiry over zoo ex- perts and assistants. They annually ls- sue reports and bulletins to the numper of about 45O which are sent to over hai a million addresses.
 The agricultural colleges and experl- ment stations are closely identineo With the farmers institute movement. mere are now annually held In the -nnlteo States about 25OO farmers llisWtieu'es W which are attended by over sOO,OOO persons These institutions are also engaged Tn the growing movement for the establishment of secondary schools of agriculture ana the teaching of agricultural supJects III the rural common schoois.
 | The land-grant colleges and the agrl- cultural experiment stations are uhi,ea to form national system or ecueatlon and research through the association or American agricultural colleges anu eN- neriment stations. This association IS comnrised of delegates, each college and each experiment station being represent cd hv one delegate. The association holds annual conventions and during the interval between two conventions is rep resented by an executive committee
 The land-grant institutions also have definite relations to the department VI the interior and the department of agrl- culture of the United States government. The secretary of the interior in his reia- lions with these institutions is represent ed by the commissioner of education and the secretary of agriculture is represented bv the director of the office of experi- ment stations. o
 At it's convention at Atlanta, Ga' in lso2 the association of colleges and stations voted to undertake an exhibit of the dis tinctive work of the institutions repre- scented in the association, especially along the lines of education and researcn m agriculture and mechanic arts. To plan and manage this exhibit special com mittee on the exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase exposition was appointed. con sisting of the following persons; Chair- man, W. H. Jordan, D. &c.,, director, New York agricultural experiment sta ton, Geneva; secretary, A. c. True Ph' D., director, office of experiment stations United States department or agriculture, washington, D. C.; H. J. Waters. K. 5. A. dean, college of agriculture and me- chanic arts of the University or Mis- souri, Columbia; w. H. Hays, M. Asr., professor of agriculture. college Of agri- culture of the University of Minnesota, | St Anthony park. St. Paul; w. F. Stone. Ph. D.. president of Purdue uni