153 Eleventh Annual Report, 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 



The result? of the year are by no means to be credited ex- 

 clusively to the members of the working staff! efficient though 

 their labors have been. To the- friends of the Station, indeed- 

 ample acknowledgement is to be given. 



In the first place, it is due to the Governing Board to state 

 that for the past eighteen months the Station, in the 

 matter of appointments and otherwise, has been out of pol- 

 itics — absolutely, so far as the writer is aware. This alone is suffi- 

 cient reason for increased efficiency; for an experiment station has 

 to deal, not with matters of opinion, nor even with matters of busi- 

 ness merely, but with matters of scientific fact. Moreover, the facts 

 which concern its workers and the agricultural public require the 

 studious attention of trained men appointed solely on their profes- 

 sional qualifications. 



During the year, the Station has been secured in the full and 

 best use of its funds, the staff having withdrawn from overmuch 

 instruction work in the college. 



The Southern Pacific, M. & P. & S. R. V., and G. V. G. & 

 N. railroads, have been substantially assistant by granting pass 

 and transportation facilities. The Southern Pacific road, in par- 

 ticular, made unusual efforts for the rapid transit of the carload 

 of date suckers from New York City to Maricopa, which was done 



without charge. 



More than all else, however, the kindly expressions which 

 have often been returned from the readers of our '-'Timely Hints" 

 and other publications, and to those who have assisted at insti- 

 tutes, have served to encourage and guide the work of the Station. 



This is as it should be; for the needs of the agricultural pub- 

 lic are the only reason for the creation and maintenance of an 

 experiment station in Arizona, and it is largely through such 

 expressions that the working staff finds that it has, in some mea- 

 sure, understood and met those needs. With a logical and suc- 

 cessful organization, with each department favorably situated and 

 busy with its special lines of investigation, and with growing in- 

 terest and appreciation on the part of the agricultural public, it is 

 hoped that the Arizona Station has at last reached a condition of 



useful stability. _, TT ^ T ,. 



J R. H. Forbes, Director. 



