ANNUAL KEPORT OF THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMEXT 



STATIONS, lUNE 30. 11)06. 



WORK OF THI; OFFICI-; OF FXFEKIMFNT STATIONS. 



The work of the Office of Experiment Stations during the past 

 year, as heretofore, has inckided the supervision of the expenditures 

 of Federal funds by the agricultural experiment stations throughout 

 the United States; conferences and correspondence with station 

 officers regarding the management, equipment, and work of the 

 stations; the collection and dissemination of information regarding 

 the progress of agricultural education and research throughout the 

 world by means of technical and popular bulletins; the management 

 of the agricvdtural experiment stations in Alaska, Haw'aii, and Porto 

 Kico; special investigations on the nutrition of man and on irrigation 

 and drainage, conducted largely in cooperation with experiment 

 stations, educational institutions, and other agencies in different 

 States and Territories, and the promotion of the interests of the agri- 

 cultural colleges and schools and farmers' institutes throughout the 

 United States. 



RELATIONS WITH THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The duties and responsibilities of the Office of Experiment Sta- 

 tions have been materially broadened and increased as a result of the 

 passage of the act of Congress of March 16, 1906 (Adams Act), 

 " providing for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural 

 experiment stations and regulating the expenditure thereof." Under 

 the terms of this act the Secretarv of Agriculture must annuallv 

 '' ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each 

 State and Territory, whether it is complying with t»he provisions of 

 this act and is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropria- 

 tion for agricultural experiment stations under this act, and the 

 amount which therefore each is entitled, respectively, to receive," and 

 " make an annual report to Congress on the receipts and expenditures 

 and work of the agricultural experiment stations in all of the States 

 aijd Territories, and also whether the appropriation of any State or 



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