Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station records

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Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station records

1852-1983

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1676

The Agricultural Experiment Station was founded in 1888 in order to use the resources of science to improve practice and profitability of agriculture, to conduct investigations into agricultural problems, and to publish and disseminate widely the results of its research. The collection consists of the operating records of the Agricultural Experiment Station and includes project and academic files, contracts and agreements, documentation of professional association activities of the station's directors, memorabilia, and photographs. A significant grouping of materials in the collection relates to the directorship of Harry J. Patterson.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6993210

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Patterson, H. J. (Harry Jacob), 1866-1948

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Agricultural chemist, director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, and president of the University of Maryland. From the description of Papers of Harry J. Patterson, 1886-1945. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 20484495 ...

Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station

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The Agricultural Experiment Station was established in College Park, Maryland in 1888 as a combined state agency, stockholder institution, and Maryland Agricultural College department. The 1887 Hatch Act provided $15,000 per year for an experiment station at all land grant institutions, and the college contributed the college farm and the Rossborough Inn. The purpose of experiment stations was to use the resources of science to improve the practice and profitability of a...

Patterson, H. J. 1866-1948

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