Thirtieth Annual Report 



ADMINISTRATION 



D. W. Working 



This report covers a period of shift and of adaptation to new 

 conditions. At the beginning of the fiscal year the Great War was 

 at its greatest intensity and every, man and woman connected with 

 agriculture was working under a serious strain. The farmers of 

 Arizona had undertaken to produce, more than in any previous 

 year. They were working out a plan that had been adopted at a 

 conference called by Dean R. H. Forbes and held at the University 

 of Arizona on April 20 and 21, 1917. This conference resulted in a 

 production program which led to increased output of farm and 

 garden crops and had the added advantage of bringing the College 

 of Agriculture and its workers into closer and more sympathetic 

 and helpful relations with the people on the farms. The latter 

 achievement is one that needs to be frankly recognized and more 

 fully appreciated. 



COLLEGE ORGANIZATION 



The College of Agriculture of the University of Arizona is a 

 teaching organization with its special group of teachers of technical 

 agricultural subjects. In addition to its teachings on the Univer- 

 sity campus, and an increasing amount of instruction by corre- 

 spondence, the College has two special kinds of work of outstanding 

 importance. As an investigating agency, it functions through its 

 Agricultural Experiment Station ; as an extension agency it works 

 through its Agricultural Extension Service. 



THE EXPERIMENT STATION 



The Agricultural Experiment Station exists to study the more 

 fundamental scientific problems that underlie agricultural practice, 

 as well as to make such experiments as will enable it to answer 

 with sure confidence the questions arising in connection with the 

 growing of the common crops of the vState and the breeding, feed- 

 ing, and management of livestock. 



