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Twenty-eighth Annual Report 



FINANCIAL 



The finances of the Agricultural Experiment Station and of 

 the Agricultural College as a whole continue to be reasonably ade- 

 quate for the work in view. The Third State Legislature in March, 

 1917, made appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 1917, 

 as follows : 



College of Agriculture and Experiment Station 



Instniction 



Administration 



Improvements 



Greenhouse for agriculture 



Extension Service (not Smith Lever) 



(with " " ) 



University of Arizona farm — Maintenance.... 

 " " " —Improvements.. 



Dry-Farming Investigations — Maintenance. . . . 

 " — Improvements... 



Plant Introduction and Breeding Investiga- 

 tions 



Tempe Date Orchard — Maintenance 



" " — Improvements 



Underflow Investigations 



Yuma Date Orchard and Horticultural Sta- 

 tion — Maintenance 



— Improvements 



Salt River Valley Farm Fund — Maintenance.. 



Agricultural Printing 



Total 



Those items marked / are intended primarily for instructional 

 purposes ; those marked r are intended for the research work of the 

 station ; while those marked c are for extension purposes. 



Available resources for the year ending June 30, 1917, are as 

 follows : 



State funds as follows : 



Hatch Fund from U. S. Treasury $15,000.00 



Adams Fund from U. S. Treasury $15,000.00 



Sales fund balances from 1915-16 $ 526.31 



Sales funds 1916-17 as follows 



Salt River Vallev Farm $2,997.85 



Yuma Date Orchard 905.46 



Tempe Date Orchard 1,610.46 



Prescott Dry Farm 113.95 



Sulphur Spring Valley Dry Farm 302.05 



Northern Arizona Dry Farm 127.50 



Hatch Sales 5,736.59 11,793.86 



$12,320.17 



Less remittance to State Treasurv $ 518.98 



Balance on hand (including $374.77 carried to 

 other statements) 2.719.77 3,238.75 



9,081.42 



Balance from 1915-16. 



$ 5,105.88 



