CONTEXTS. 



Paee. 



Work of the Office of Experiment Stations 15 



Eehitions with tlie atrricultural experiment stations 15 



Experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico 19 



Alaska stations 19 



Hawaii Station 22 



Porto Rico Station 25 



Nntrition investigations 28 



The work at different places 29 



Publications '>'^ 



Irrigation and drainage investigations 34 



Irrigation 34 



Drainage 38 



Publications 42 



Promotion of agricultural education 42 



Farmers' institutes 44 



PuWications 46 



Income 48 



Work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations 49 



Progress of the stations . .■ 50 



Some features of station work 51 



Dissemination of information 54 



Statistics of the stations - 55 



Inspection of the stations 55 



The Adams Act 58 



History of the first year's appropriation 60 



Administration of the Adams Act - - 66 



Kinds of work under tlie Adams Act 72 



Reports on the stations - "~ 



Alabama College Station 77 



Alal )ama Canebrake Station - . 7S 



Alabama Tuskegee Station 79 



Alaska stations ^*^ 



Arizona Station 81 



Arkansas Station S3 



California Station S4 



Colorado Station .- 87 



Connecticut State Station - 88 



Connecticut Storrs Station 90 



Delaware Station 91 



Florida Station 93 



Georgia Station - ^4 



Hawaii Station - 96 



Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station -• 98 



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