REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT 



STATIONS. 



F. S, Department of Agriculture, 



Office of Experiment Stations, 



Washingfmi, D. C, September 20, 1902. 



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

 Experiment Stations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902. 

 Respectfully, 



A. C. True, 



Director. 

 Hon, James Wilson, Secretary. 



work of the year, with recommendations. 



Division and Development of Work of Office of Experiment 



Stations. 



The functions of the Office of Experiment Stations have been 

 enlarged in several directions during the past year and the enter- 

 prises previously in its charge have become more extensive. Especial 

 efforts have been made to aid the movement for the strengthening of 

 agricultural education and research through the more definite formu- 

 lation of agricultural science and the more thorough training of agri- 

 cultural experts. For this purpose the work of this Office, in connec- 

 tion with the Graduate School of Agriculture, as described elsewhere 

 in this report, has proved to be unusually successful and effective. 

 Attempts have also been made to call the attention of the agricultural 

 public and the managers of educational systems to the great desira- 

 bility of making agricultural subjects a part of the curriculum of sec- 

 ondary and elementary schools. The development of the farmers' 

 institutes as effective agencies for the dissemination of the results of 

 the work of this Department and the experiment stations lias also 

 engaged our attention. The agricultural experiment stations under 

 the direct management of this Office in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto 

 Rico have been put upon a firm basis, and much progress has been 

 made in developing useful lines of work in these regions. The Office 

 has been brought into closer relations with the institutions for agri- 

 cultural research in foreign countries through work involved in the 

 preparation of a bulletin setting forth the organization, resoui'ces, and 

 pnes of work of these institutions. By this means our knowledge of 

 these foreign institutions has been greatly broadened, and it will be 

 more feasible hereafter to secure definite information regarding their 

 work which will be useful to similar institutions in this country. 

 Both the legal and engineering features of the irrigation investigations 

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