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interests. Dr. Stublis will later present a detailed report of liis inves- 

 tigations in Hawaii for transmission to Congress at its coming session. 



Among the subjects which require especial attention are the culture 

 of fruits and vegetables, coffee growing, stock raising, dairying, irri- 

 gation, forestry, and diseases of plants. As regards investigations in 

 irrigation and forestry, the work which is urgently needed in the 

 immediate future should, in mj^ judgment, be undertaken by the 

 Divisions of this Department having these matters in charge, thus 

 leaving the station free to pursue its work along other lines, at least 

 until it shall become firmly established. The Territory of Hawaii in 

 conjunction with the planters' association employs a very competent 

 entomologist (Prof. A. Koebele), and therefore there is no immediate 

 necessity for such a scientist for this station. There are several com- 

 petent veterinarians in Honolulu whose services can be obtained when 

 desired. 



As a headquarters for the station, it is recommended that the reser- 

 vation made by the Hawaiian government in 1893 for an experimental 

 and forestry station be secured. This is a tract of 222 acres near 

 Honolulu, with an elevation ranging from 50 to 1,000 feet, thus afford- 

 ing opportunity for a considerable variety of field operations. The 

 buildings needed by the station can conveniently be erected on this 

 tract, and limited areas can be at once cleared for experimental oper- 

 ations. For the proper maintenance of the station, funds equal to 

 those given to the other stations of the United States should be pro- 

 vided for current expenses, and in addition provision should be made 

 for buildings and equiijment. Following the policy pursued else- 

 where, it seems to me that the United States should give to this sta- 

 tion the same annual appropriation which is given to other States and 

 Territories under the Hatch Act, and the Hawaiian government and 

 people should be called upon to supplement these funds as far as may 

 be necessary to establish and maintain the station on an efficient 

 basis. 



Experiment Station in Porto Rico. 



For Porto Rico, the recommendation contained in my report for 

 1899 was also adopted by Congress, and an appropriation of 15,000 

 was made to determine the agricultural conditions existing in that 

 island, with special reference to the most desirable localities for agri- 

 cultural experiment stations, as well as the subjects on which the 

 agricultural people of the island are in most immediate need of prac- 

 tical information, and how this need can be most economically and 

 effectively supplied. The appropriation also provides for the print- 

 ing (in Porto Rico) and dissemination of circulars of inquiry and bul- 

 letins of information in the Spanish and English languages. It will 

 be observed that this appropriation i)rovides only for the preliminary 

 study of questions relating to the establishment of an experiment sta- 

 tion in Porto Rico, differing in this respect from the apin-opriation for 

 Hawaii above referred to. The agent selected for this service is Prof. 

 S. A. Knapp, formerly of the Iowa Agricultural College. In recent 

 years Professor Knapp has successfully engaged in the growing of 

 sugar cane, rice, and other semitropical crops in southern Louisiana, 

 and has lately visited Hawaii and the Philippines in the interests of 

 this Department. He has also had much practical experience in the 

 develof)ment of agricultural enterprises in the South on a large scale. 

 He is thus well qualified to judge of the agricultural needs of Porto 



