MONTANA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION ORGANIZATION=-ANNOUNCEMENTS. BOZEMAN, MONTANA, MARCH, 1894. Bozeman Chronicle, Post Office, Express and Freight Station, Bozeman. All communications for the Experiment Station should be addressed to the Director. NOTICE The bulletins of the Station will be mailed free to any citizen of Montana who sends his name and address to the Station for that purpose. Montana Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 1. March, 1894. ORGANIZATION--ANNOUNCEMENTS. BY S. M. EMERY. The Montana Agricultural Experiment Station owes its existence to the "Hatch Act" of 1887, creating experiment stations, supplemented by the passage by the Montana legislature in 1893 of the following law: An act providing for the location and establishment of the Agricultural College of the State of Montana, and an Agricultural Experimental Station in connection therewith, enumerating its objects and purposes, dedicating lands for the use of the same, providing for the government and control thereof, and accepting and adopting the provisions, donations and benefits contained in the Acts of Congress relating thereto. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana: SECTION 1. The Agricultural College of the State of Montana is established at the city of Bozeman, or within three (3) miles of the corporate limits of said city, upon such tract or tracts of land, conforming in the aggregate not less than eighty (80) acres, and as much more as shall be selected by the State Board of Education, as hereinafter provided; and said College has for its leading objects and purposes, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the |
