1. In what year was the Hatch Act passed?
 
 

2. What were the two major purposes of the act.
 
 
 
 
 
 

3. What did the act establish?
 
 
 
 

4. In what specific areas were research studies to be conducted?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

5. Some years after the passage of the Hatch Act studies were conducted by the USDA on adult education and public school education in agriculture. Which statement or phrases in the act could be construed as authorizing this?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

6. Who were to receive the results of the experiments? (READ CAREFULLY)
 
 
 
 
 
 

7. How much money did each state receive from this act?
 
 
 
 

8. During the first year of the act, could money be spent on buildings? How about after the first year?
 
 
 
 
 
 

9. If you didn't spend your annual appropriation, what happened in the next year?
 
 

10. Who was Dick Crosby and what did he do?
 
 
 

11. Who was John Hamilton and what did he do?
 
 

12. How did the "night" topics at a Farmers' Institute differ from the day topics?
 
 
 

13. After examining the list of "state" speakers in Ohio and North Carolina for the Farmers' Institutes, select one speaker and topic you would personally like to hear.
 
 
 

14. What is todays equivalent of the institute speakers?
 
 
 
 

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