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genuinely cooperative and, therefore, more effective in promoting 

 profitable farming and more wholesome home and community- 

 life in the open country. 



The report for the preceding year announced the appoint- 

 ment of Mr. W. M. Cook as Director of the Agricultural Ex- 

 tension Service of the College of Agriculture after he had served 

 two years as County Agent Leader. After a year of work as 

 Director, Mr. Cook has his organization well in hand, with the 

 hearty support of every member of the Extension Service. In 

 spite of many obstacles, the work is making real progress, and 

 seems to be better established in the interest of the people than 

 ever before. 



THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



Primarily, this is a Report of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station ; but it is proper in an administrative report to discuss 

 the Experiment Station as one of the divisions of the College 

 of Agriculture. The Station is an investigational and research 

 agency. It conducts experiments to test old knowledge in its 

 applications under new conditions; it plans other experiments 

 in its search for new facts; it studies old knowledge in relation 

 to new and different surroundings; and it publishes the results 

 of its investigations and studies in order that teachers of agri- 

 culture and farmers may make use of old facts and old mean- 

 ings and new meanings in the operations which we call agri- 

 culture — farming, fruit-growing, stock-raising, and all of the 

 various activities of the men and women whose business brings 

 them into contact with growing plants and breeding and caring 

 for animals. 



In Arizona we have been used to a form of organization 

 which assumes that it is necessary that we have an Agricultural 

 Extension Director able to devote his full time to the adminis- 

 tration of agricultural extension work ; but we have not realized 

 that the work of the Agricultural Experiment Station needs to 

 be supervised by a Director able to give his full time to the 

 work of the Station. Our research work has been important 

 enough for a number of years to require the leadership of a 

 competent man able to give it his entire time and strength. 

 Not, however, until the present year was nearing its end had 

 the way become clear to provide for a Director of the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station who should be without other adminis- 

 trative or teaching duties. 



