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      character in some cases affect the library.
      Where the agricultural college is part of a
      university having a large general hbrary, as
      in the case of the New York State College
      of Agriculture at Cornell University, the col-
      lege library may develop very intensively its
      own special collections, relying on the uni-
      versity hbrary for general works in kindred
      or alien sciences.
         In some states, however, as in Maine and
      in Ohio, there   is no separate agricultural
      library,  the  agricultural  collections being
      kept together with other collections in the
      university library.   In all there are in the
      United States sixty-five agricultural colleges,
      supported    by  federal   and  state  funds.
      Twenty-three of these are of the character
      of state universities, twenty-eight are sepa-
      rate institutions having the function of state
      colleges, and fourteen exist for colored per-
      sons in the South.
         The  agricultural  college  libraries serve
      particularly the teaching staff and the stu-
      dents.   The   latter  comprise  those  doing
      graduate work, undergraduates engaged on
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