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In order to do its work as it should, the Station needs to have 

 a strong and relatively permanent staff of trained investigators. 

 The State cannot afford to adopt or to tolerate a policy that will 

 result in the doing of slovenly work and the publication of bulletins 

 and reports of less than the highest standard of scientific excellence. 

 This implies that the State must make such provision for the ade- 

 quate support of an organization that needs an increasing financial 

 support if it is even to maintain its present standard of efficiency ; 

 it is to be remembered that Arizona is making great advances as an 

 agricultural state. During the past ten years the rural population 

 has increased tenfold. The Experiment Station is thus brought 

 face to face with new crop problems, and into direct contact with 

 an enlarging number of farmers d!nd others, who call at the Station 

 offices and laboratories in Tucson and at the several Station farms. 



THE EXTENSION SERVICE 

 The Agricultural Extension Service, like the Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, is an integral part of the College of Agriculture. 

 It is the College working throughout the State for the purpose of 

 teaching by means of demonstrations, lectures, extension schools, 

 and popular publications, the facts, principles and practices which 

 it presents on the University campus by class and laboratory 

 methods. The Extension Service, in order to meet its obligations 

 to the public, will continue to need increasing financial support. 

 Its accomplishments for the year are set forth in detail in a separate 

 report. But it covers a broader teaching field, for the reason that 

 cooperative agricultural extension work includes the field of home 

 economics. 



PERSONNEL 



After the resignation of Dr. R. H. Forbes, effective February 

 15, 1918, President von KleinSmid became Dean of the College of 

 Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 March 1, 1919, the appointment of D. W. Working took effect. 



On August 30, 1918, Dr. G. F. Freeman left the Station to be- 

 come Botanist to the Sultanic Agricultural Society, Cairo, Egypt. 

 Mr. C. O. Bond resigned as Assistant Plant Breeder, April 30, 1919. 

 The services of Dr. A. W. Morrill, Consulting Entomologist, and 

 Mr. D. C. George, Consulting Plant Pathologist, terminated with the 

 D. C. George, Consulting Plant Pathologist, terminated with the 

 fiscal year June 30, 1919. The Department of Animal Husbandry 

 was divided, Assistant Professor W. S. Cunningham being made 

 head of a new Department of Dairy Husbandry under the title of 



