ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



ORGANIZATION AND WORK OF THE STATION. 



During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, the Arizona 

 Station has continued and strengthened its work in the agricul- 

 tural, chemical and botanical departments, has established a new- 

 department of animal husbandry, has increased the usefulness of 

 the office for the distribution of a growing number of publica- 

 tions, has engaged in cooperative work with the farmers of the 

 Territory and with outside specialists which has yielded much 

 useful information at little cost, and, all things taken together, 

 has put in operation a plan of work which has been productive of 

 satisfactory or promising results in a somewhat dispersed situa- 

 tion. 



The principle on which the business of the year has been 

 transacted is, to do each kind of work, so far as j~>ossible, in the 

 situation most favorable to its accomplishment. 



Costly experience in Arizona has demonstrated the futility of 

 trying to make Nature recognize the motives of human expediency. 

 The diplomat, therefore, who commands a peach tree to bloom 

 and be fruitful on top of a frost-bitten, calichi hill, is likely to 

 meet with an embarrassing refusal, as is also the scientist who 

 tries to force unnatural results where, for the time being, they 

 will satisfy sectional feeling. 



According to the principle emphasized above, the various 

 lines of experiment station work have been distributed as follows: 



The director's office and the departments of botany and chem- 

 istry have continued and enlarged their operations at Tucson, in 

 connection with the Territorial University, of which the Experi- 

 ment Station is a legally constituted department. This arrange- 

 ment, under proper regulation, is of advantage to both institu- 

 tions. The Experiment Station profits by the buildings, the li- 

 braries, and the associations of the University, while the Univer- 

 sity is benefited from time to time by the teaching ability of Station 



