TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION. 



IN GENERAL. 



During the year just completed, the Arizona Station has pro- 

 ceeded along the lines and upon the principles stated and em- 

 phasized in the eleventh annual report, — according to which the 

 different members of the Station staff have been enabled to carry 

 on their investigations in those localities best suited to the accom- 

 plishment of results. 



Notable progress has been made in all departments of effort, 

 and, though interruptions have occurred, the advantages of or- 

 ganization and of well-defined experimental objects have enabled 

 the Station to hold to its general plan without serious loss of time 

 or achievement. 



Freedom from political interference during the past two 

 years, moreover, has made it possible for the scientific staff to 

 maintain that spirit of loyal service and devotion to agricultural in- 

 terests, which should always characterize the true, professional 

 experiment station worker. 



With such favorable administrative conditions, actuated by 

 such motives, and with fine natural opportunities, the Ari- 

 zona Station is steadily adding to, and applying, and diffusing 

 knowledge of southwestern agriculture. A fitting maxim, in- 

 deed, for an investigator enlisted in the service of a hun- 

 gry, growing, young western commonwealth is: Not '''science for 

 science's sake" merely; but, science for humanity's sake. Such a 

 maxim accords well with the fact that the sole reason for the 

 maintenance of an agricultural experiment station, both in law and 

 in ethics, is the needs of the agricultural public to whose service 

 it is dedicated. 



