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For a period of about ten months the Director was on leave of ab- 

 sence in Riverside, Cahfornia, completing a long standing research 

 relating to the mining waste problem in certain irrigated districts in 

 Arizona, and, incidentally, studying the agriculture of a district re- 

 sembling southern Arizona but older in experience and more highly 

 developed in its methods. Professor G. F. Freeman assumed the duties 

 of Acting Dean and Director of the College of Agriculture and Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station for the time mentioned, and it is under 

 his direct supervision, with the collaboration of the Director, that the 

 work of the year has been accomplished. A. M. McOmie, for six 

 years Assistant Agriculturist in the Station, went into commercial 

 work January 1, 1916, and was succeeded by Professor John F. Nichol- 

 son, of St. Louis, as Agronomist, and Mr. H. C. Heard, of Moscow, 

 Idaho, as Assistant Agronomist. Mr. Leonhardt Swingle, for one year 

 Assistant in Plant Breeding, went into commercial work January 1, 

 1916, and was succeeded by Mr. Walker E. Bryan, of Alabama. Mr. 

 C. R. Fillerup, foreman of the dry-farm at Cochise, was promoted to 

 be County Agent in the Extension Service in Navajo County. Mr. L. 

 L. Bates, foreman of the Prescott dry-farm, went into commercial 

 work near Prescott, and was succeeded by Mr. Hyrum Dana. Mr. D. 

 C. Aepli, of the old Station farm near Phoenix, was transferred to the 

 Yuma garden ; and Mr. C. J. Wood, formerly of the Yuma garden, 

 was transferred to the foremanship of the new Station farm near Mesa. 

 Miss Helen M. A. Miller, for several years Librarian and Secretary, 

 was succeeded by Miss Frances M. Wells as Secretary. Mr. J. A. 

 Armstrong, Farm Advisor for Maricopa County, resigned June 1, 1916, 

 to go into commercial work, and his place has not as yet been filled. 



Mr. Stanley F. Morse, for three years Superintendent of Extension 

 also resigned August 15, 1916, to go into commercial work, and he was 

 succeeded by Professor Estes P. Taylor as Director of the Extension 

 Service. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Publications for the year, including Annual Reports, Bulletins, 



Timely Hints for Farmers, and scientific papers are as follows : 



Bulletin 11, June 1, 1916. Practical Fig Culture in Arizona. 



— By W. H. Lawrence. 

 Twenty-sixth Annual Report, December 31, 1916. — By the Station Staff. 



Timely Hints for Farmers : 



No. 111. September 1, 1915. Irises for Southwestern Gardens. 



—By J. J. Thornber. 



