§ 6-64-709 - Cotton Branch Experiment Station.
6-64-709. Cotton Branch Experiment Station.
(a) For the purpose of enabling the Main Agricultural Experiment Station to more fully carry out the purpose of that experiment station, to increase and make more efficient and useful the agricultural research and experiment work of the state, to make the results of such work useful to the people of the state, to increase the facilities of the experiment station for its work in agriculture and horticulture, crops, soil, fertilizers, livestock, dairying, poultry production, insect enemies, and plant and animal diseases injurious to the crops and livestock of the state, the economic problems of farm management and marketing, and the related problems of the farms of this state, and to make the results of the work available to all parts of the state, there is created a Cotton Branch Experiment Station to be located at a point at or near the center of cotton production.
(b) The Cotton Branch Experiment Station shall be located on soils fairly representative of the soils on which cotton is grown in the state and shall be devoted to investigational work relative to the problems of cotton farmers, including cotton production, varieties, soils, and soil management, irrigation, rotation, other crops for the cotton farmer, livestock and poultry for the cotton region, and the fruits and truck crops adapted to such system of farming together with the economic problems of the farmers of that section.
(c) It shall consist of not over three hundred twenty (320) acres of land.
(d) When selected, established, and equipped, the branch station shall be and remain the property of the State of Arkansas for the use and purpose set forth in this section and shall be under the administrative charge of the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.
(e) (1) The director of the experiment station of the institution shall also be the Director of the Cotton Branch Experiment Station, but there may be a superintendent at such station who shall be directly responsible to the Director of the Main Agricultural Experiment Station.
(2) The staff of scientists and the laboratories of the Main Agricultural Experiment Station shall serve, insofar as possible, for the same purpose as to the Cotton Branch Experiment Station.
(3) The entire experimental work of the state shall be administered as one (1) institution for the benefit of the people of the state, including the Main Agricultural Experiment Station, the Cotton Branch Experiment Station, and the outlying field work in cooperation with farmers.
(f) (1) The Cotton Branch Experiment Station shall be used by the board of trustees for the purpose of making investigations in and experiments of cotton culture and related subjects connected with the problems of the farmers and the cotton growers of the State of Arkansas, including crop production, animal production and breeding, plant breeding, soils and soil fertility, insect pests, diseases of plants and animals and methods of their control or eradication, farm management, marketing, storage, preservation of farm products, and all other problems affecting the farms and farm life of that section of the State of Arkansas.
(2) The director shall publish bulletins and reports from time to time giving the results of the work of the experiment station and use every endeavor to disseminate the information secured.