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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS
Washington, D. C. July, 1936
REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL
EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 1935
By J. T. JARDINE and W. I. BEAL
CONTENTS
Page Page
Introduction - ...---------,------------- 1 Some results of recent station work-Contd.
Income-------.---,------------_-------_ 1 Foods and nutrition and household manIncreased
income under the Bankhead- agement -----_-----.------___-__-.__- 98
Jones Act -----------------------.----- 3 Improving rural economic and social
Permanent improvements _---------.------. 5 conditions ---------i------------------ 125
Research projects and programs------------ 8 Agricultural engineering --------__------ 140
Coordination and cooperation -------------- 9 Experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and
Agricultural research and service----------- 12 Puerto Rico----.------------------ - 143
Some results of recent station work ------_. 13 Major changes in personnel ----------__--- 145
Plant production and products---------- 13 Publications -1---------------------- 145
Animal production and products-------- 68 Library facilities and services----------- 146
Income, expenditures, and other statistics -- 147
INTRODUCTION
This report, prepared in accordance with the requirement that
the Secretary of Agriculture shall ascertain and report to Congress
on the use made of Federal funds for the support of agricultural
experiment stations in the several States and Territories, deals primarily
with the use made of $4,388,000 ($90,000 to each State, $15,000
to Alaska, $28,000 to Hawaii, and $25,000 to Puerto Rico) provided
by the Hatch, Adams, Purnell, and supplementary acts for
the support of the stations during the year ended June 30, 1935, but
also deals with use made of funds derived from other sources and
gives a general summary of the work of these stations as a whole,
discusses questions of their organization, administration, personnel,
research facilities, needs, trends, and public service, and reviews the
progress made in coordination of the work of the Department with
that of the experiment stations.
INCOME
The total income of the stations for the year ended June 30, 1935,
was $15,072,261.84, as compared with $14,188,455.19 for the previous
year, showing an increase of $883,806.65, or 6.2 percent. Of the total
income, $4,388,000 was derived from appropriations under the
With the collaboration of other members of the Office staff.
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