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cation Centers operating as an integral administrative unit. As a statewide
agency having agricultural research as its primary objective, the stations
cooperate closely with numerous Florida agricultural agencies and organizations.
 Many members of the research staff of the Agricultural Experiment
Stations are also members of the faculty of the College of Agriculture as
are some in the Cooperative Extension Service and the Center for Tropical
Agriculture. These three agricultural units of the University of Florida In-
stitute of Food and Agricultural Sciences work cooperatively in many areas
under the administration of the Vice President for Agricultural Affairs.
 Funds for graduate assistants are made available to encourage graduate
training and professional scientific improvement.
 Research at the main station is conducted within 18 areas-Agricultural
Engineering, Agronomy, Animal Science, Botany, Dairy Science, Entomology
and Nematology, Food and Resource Economics, Food Science, School of
Forest Resources and Conservation, Fruit Crops, Microbiology, Ornamental
Horticulture, Plant Pathology, Poultry Science, Soils, Statistics, Vegetable
Crops, and Veterinary Science. In addition to the above, the main station
has four units vital to its research programs; namely, editorial, library, field
services, and business service.
 The Agricultural Research Centers are located at Monticello, Brooks-
ville, Ft. Pierce, Immokalee, Dover, Ft. Lauderdale, Hastings, Ona, Apopka,
Marianna, Live Oak, Leesburg, Lakeland, Jay and Ocala.
 The locations of the Agricultural Research and Education Centers are
at Homestead, Belle Glade, Bradenton, Lake Alfred, Quincy and Sanford.
 The Florida Agricultural Experiment Stations are 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 National Weather Bureau, Lakeland, in the Federal Frost
Warning Service for fruit and vegetable producers and shippers.
 THE FLORIDA ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERIMENT STATION devel-
oped 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.
 Since the fall term of 1967, seven departments of the College of Engi-
neering and the Experiment Station have moved into some 310,000 sq. ft. in
seven modern new buildings and one remodeled building. These improvements,
including equipment, have raised the value of the physical plant of the college
to over $13 million.