WORK AND EXPF.XDITURES OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERI- 

 MENT STATIONS. 



This is the eleventh annual report on the work and expenditures 

 of the agricultural experiment stations in the United States, made 

 by the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, under instruc- 

 tions from the Secretary of Agriculture. As heretofore, the report 

 is based on three sources of information, viz, the annual financial 

 statements of the stations, rendered on the schedules prescribed by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, in accordance with the act of Congress ; 

 the printed reports and bulletins of the stations, and the reports 

 of personal examinations of the work and expenditures of the sta- 

 tions made by the Director, the assistant director (E. W. Allen), 

 W. II. Beal, and AValter H. Evans. The compilation of the state- 

 ments regarding the individual stations has been made by Dick J. 

 Crosby. 



OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



GENERAL. OUTLOOK. 



The work of the Office of Experiment Stations has continued to 

 grow in amount and importance. Through its intimate relations 

 with the agricultural experiment stations the Office has been able 

 to assist these institutions in systematizing and strengthening their 

 work and in recruiting their staffs. Plans are now being perfected 

 to i-ender still more efficient aid to the stations by a more thorough 

 study of their operations, by keeping better records of their work, 

 and by enlarging the infornuition given them in the Experiment 

 Station Record through additions to the staff of this journal, which 

 will render it possible to introduce new and reorganize old depart- 

 ments in accordance with the most modern conception of the science 

 of agriculture. 



The greatly increased demands for aid in developing and extend- 

 ing courses of instruction in agriculture have been met so far as the re- 

 sources of the Office would allow. The Office has thus come into much 

 closer relation witli educators, associations, and institutions interested 

 in agricultural education, and in order to render more effective 

 assistance in promoting the interests of rural connnunities it has 

 recently established a department of agi'icidtural education in the 

 Experiment Station Kecord. The Office has continued to give aid 

 to the States in developing and perfecting the farmers' institute 



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