EEPOET OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT 



STATIONS. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Office of Experimext Stations, 

 Washington, D. C, October 15, 1912. 



Sra : I have the honor to present herewith the report of the Office of 

 Experiment Stations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912. 

 Eespectfully, 



A. C. True, Director, 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



INTRODUCTION". 



The work of the Office of Experiment Stations during the Last year 

 included, as heretofore, the supervision of the expenditures of Fed- 

 eral (Hatch and Adams) funds by the agricultural experiment sta- 

 tions in the several States and Territories; conferences and corre- 

 spondence with station officers regarding the management, equip- 

 ment, and work of the stations; the collection and dissemination of 

 information regarding the i)rogress of agricultural education and re- 

 search throughout the world; the management of the agricultural 

 experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam; the 

 promotion of the interests of agricultural colleges and schools and 

 farmers' institutes in the United States; and investigations on irriga- 

 tion and drainage and of problems relating to the utilization of agri- 

 cultural products as food for man. 



The process and present status of these different lines of work are 

 briefly reviewed below. 



RELATIONS WITH AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The work of the, office in its relations with the experiment sta- 

 tions during the past year has kej:)t pace with the continued growth 

 of the activities of these institutions. Tlie policy of the office in rela- 

 tion to the Hatch and Adams funds, the apportionment of salaries in 

 cases where station officials have also college and other duties, the 

 approval of Adams fund projects and their continuation and com- 

 pletion when once entered upon, extension work by station men, and 

 the matter of station publications has not changed, and the inspection 

 of the stations was nuide with a view to holding consistently to the 



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