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some in the Agricultural Extension Service and the Center for Tropical Agri-
culture. These three agricultural units of the University of Florida Institute of
Food and Agricultural Sciences work cooperatively in many areas under the
administration of the Provost for Agriculture.
 Funds for graduate assistants are made available to encourage graduate
training and professional scientific improvement
 Research at the main station is conducted within 18 departments-Agri-
cultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Animal Science,
Bacteriology, Botany, Dairy Science, Entomology, Food Science, Forestry,
Fruit Crops, Ornamental Horticulture, Plant Pathology, Poultry Science, Soils,
Statistics, Vegetable Crops, and Veterinary Science. In addition to the above,
the main station has three units vital to its research programs; namely, Editorial,
Field Services, and Plant Science Section.
 The branch stations and field laboratories, and their locations, are as
follows: Central Florida Station, Sanford; Citrus Station, Lake Alfred; Ever-
glades Station, Belle Glade; Gulf Coast Station, Bradenton; North Florida
Station, Quincy; Range Cattle Station, Ona; Sub-Tropical Station, Homestead;
Suwannee Valley Station, Live Oak; West Florida Station, Jay; Indian River
Field Laboratory, Fort Pierce; Plantation Field Laboratory, Fort Lauderdale;
South Florida Field Laboratory, Immokalee; Potato Investigations Labora-
tory, Hastings; Big Bend Horticultural Laboratory, Monticello; Strawberry
and Vegetable Field Laboratory, Plant City; and the Watermelon and Grape
Investigations Laboratory, Leesburg; West Florida Dairy Unit, Chipley; and
Marianna Unit, Marianna.
 The Florida Agricultural Experiment Station is cooperating with the
Brooksville Beef Cattle Research Station, Brooksville, a USDA field labora-
tory, in its beef cattle and pasture production and management programs;
and with the United States Weather Bureau, Lakeland, in the Federal Frost
Warning Service for fruit and vegetable producers and shippers.
 The Florida Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station developed from
early research activities of the engineering faculty and was officially established
in 1941 by the Legislature as an integral part of the College of Engineering.
Its mandate is "to organize and promote the prosecution of research projects
of engineering and related sciences, with special reference to such of these
problems as are important to the industries of Florida."
 The College and the Station are inextricably intertwined-the two activi-
ties cannot be separated functionally; they comprise the two arms of the whole
engineering body. This is particularly true at the graduate level. In many in-
stances a program initiated primarily as a research activity has developed into
a full-fledged academic department of the College, demonstrating the close
interlocking relationship of the research and teaching functions.
 Early in the Fall term of 1967, five departments of the College of Engi-
neering and the Experiment Station moved into some 235,000 sq. ft. provided
by six new modern buildings located on the South Campus. Also completed
is 42,000 sq. ft. of remodeled space for the Metallurgical and Materials
Engineering Department. These improvements, including equipment other than