JCovember 30, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



709 



urally divided into specialties accord- 

 ing to the kinds of materials, e. g., 

 foods and feeding stuffs. liquors, oils, 

 textiles and leather. 



Rural Engineering includes those 

 branches of civil and mechanical en- 

 gineering which relate to the locating, 

 arranging and equipment of farms, 

 and the construction and operation of 

 farm implements and machinery. It 

 embraces the surveying of farms, the 

 location of farm buildings and works, 

 the construction of buildings, water, 

 irrigation, drainage and sewage sys- 

 tems and roads. It also involves the 

 principles of mechanics as applied to 

 farm machinery and the use of differ- 

 ent kinds of power for agricultural 

 purposes. 



Rural Economics may be more or less 

 broadly defined according to the point 

 of view. It at least includes whatever 

 is related to agriculture considered as 

 a means for the production, preserva- 

 tion and distribution of wealth by the 

 use of land for the growing of plants 

 and animals. It may include the de- 

 velopment of agriculture as a busi- 

 ness (history of agriculture), as well 

 as the facts and principles of farm 

 management under present conditions. 



Thus far the stations have made 

 few investigations in rural economics, 

 and it is doubtful whether they are 

 authorized to do so. but in all the 

 other divisions of agriculture they 

 have done more or less work. 



Stations Are Not for Farmers Alone. 



Obviously this broad definition of 

 agriculture takes in much more than 

 relates to the occupations and inter- 

 ests of people on what are ordinarily 

 called farms. It includes the forests 

 as well as the gardens, parks, and 

 even the house plants and domestic 

 animals in villages and cities, and thus 

 brings within the purview of the sta- 

 tions interests pertaining to practi- 

 cally all our people. It is in fact a 

 great mistake to suppose that the sta- 

 tions are established solely for the 

 benefit of farmers. Their national 

 support is only to be justified under 

 the general welfare clause of the con- 

 stitution and on the theory that agri- 

 culture, broadly considered, is a funda- 

 mental and well-nigh universal in- 

 dustry. 



That the people in a measure realize 

 this is seen in the fact that when the 

 stations or the Department of Agri- 

 culture issue publications on subjects 

 relating to poultry or the horse, there 

 seems to be no limit to the demand 

 for them. If an insect attacks the 

 shade trees on your city lot, or a dis- 

 ease blights the carnations in your 

 greenhouse, the begonias in your win- 

 dow box, or the asparagus in your 

 garden, you have just as much right 

 to appeal to the experiment station or 

 the Department of Agriculture for ad- 

 vice and assistance as has the farmer 

 with his 100 acres of potatoes or corn, 

 or the ranchman with his thousands of 

 sheep or cattle. 



With their existing financial limita- 

 tions the stations have very properly 

 given their attention thus far prin- 

 cipally to the needs of our large agri- 

 cultural industries, but they have also 

 done much which is ef use to village 

 and city people growing a few plants, 

 and they will undoubtedly enlarge 

 their work in this direction as time 

 goes on and funds increase. The farm- 



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ers need have no fear that the sta- 

 tions will forget them or neglect their 

 interests, but should rather rejoice 

 that in the stations they have a pow- 

 erful agency for bringing city people 

 into closer sympathy with rural people. 



Wide Distribution of the Stations. 



In the second place, the broad out- 

 look of the agricultural experiment 

 stations is found in their wide geo- 

 graphic distribution. Beginning in 

 Europe and America, they have spread 

 to every continent and many islands. 

 There are now more than 1000 sta- 

 tions and kindred institutions in more 

 than 50 countries. The United States 

 has 60 regular stations and many sub- 

 stations, Germany has 98 stations, 

 France 94, Russia 115. Great Britain 

 41, Italy 49, Austria 42, Hungary 29, 

 Sweden 37. Belgium 17, Denmark 10, 

 Australia 3(j, Japan 58, and India 38. 



Since 1904, stations or experimental 

 farms have been established in China, 

 Korea, Mexico, Peru, Greece, Servia, 

 French West Africa. Orange River 

 Free State, and the Fiji Islands. Be- 

 fore that time stations were in op- 

 eration in Algeria. Bulgaria. British 

 West Indies. Cuba, Egypt, Java, Portu- 

 gal, Spain. Roumania, the Philippines, 

 and many other minor countries and 

 dependencies. In the Eastern Hemis- 

 phere there are stations all the way 

 from the 60th parallel of north latitude 

 in Russia. Norway and Sweden, to the 

 Cape of Good Hope and far off New 

 Zealand, and from Ireland to Japan. 

 In the Western Hemisphere they 

 stretch from Rampart, Alaska, on the 

 66th parallel of north latitude (where 

 barley, rye, oats and wheat have been 

 matured several years in succession) 

 to Santiago, in South America, 34 de- 

 grees south of the equator. The north 

 temperate zone is peppered with sta- 



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