RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 5 THE FIRST CENTURY OF AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS IN NEW JERSEY

Many changes have taken place in the dissemination of agricultural information in the one hundred years since the first establishment of land grant colleges and state experiment stations in the United States. Most dramatic is the change in the types of reports and documents published by the state agricultural experiment stations (AES). Using New Jersey as an example, this article will present an overview of the major types of publications of the state agricultural experiment station in its first century of existence, and examine the several factors that may have contributed to a change in traditional methods of publishing agricultural information. These factors include federal legislative man-dates, federal fiscal support, and a basic change in agricultural research initiatives. The history of agricultural education in New Jersey is unique in many ways. Rutgers University, established as Queens College in 1766, has served as the land grant college for the state since 1864. The basic ai