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HORTICULTURE 



November 30. 190T 



tions, the south temperate zone well 



clotted with them, and they are here 

 and there in the torrid zone. 



The Wide Range of Subjects Dealt 

 With. 



These statements are perhaps suffi- 

 cient to indicate the wide range of 

 subjects with which the stations have 

 to deal. In our own country the worli 

 ranges all the way from attempts to 

 grow grain under Arctic conditions, 

 raise grain hay to sell at $200 a ton in 

 the Copper River Valley, improve the 

 native crab apple and the wild straw- 

 berry of Alaska, and aid an enthusias- 

 tic horticulturist at Coldfoot, 67 de- 

 grees north latitude, grow cucumbers, 

 radishes and other vegetables, to ex- 

 periments with mangoes, bread fruit, 

 cherimoya, litchi, longan, wi, rubber 

 trees, cacao, coffee, and many other 

 tropical plants in Hawaii, Porto Rico 

 and the Philippines. While many of 

 the stations are organized to work in 

 a general way for the promotion of 

 agriculture in their respective locali- 

 ties, others confine their work to spe- 

 cial subjects, the range of which may 

 be indicated by the names given to 

 some of these institutions. Thus we 

 have agronomic stations, animal chem- 

 istry stations, bacteriological stations, 

 brewing and distillery stations, crypto- 

 ganic laboratories, entomological sta- 

 tions, farm mechanics' stations, fish 

 culture stations, marine zoological sta- 

 tions, moor experiment stations, seri- 

 cultural stations, and stations exclu- 

 sively for experiments in the culture 

 of cinchona, cotton, flax, indigol. sugar, 

 tea, or tobacco. It one desires to get 

 a more comprehensive view of the 

 broad outlook of the experiment sta- 

 tions, geographically and topically, he 

 can do so by examining the volumes 

 of the Experiment Station Record, 

 where is reported from month to 

 month the work of the stations 

 throughout the world. 



Orcjanization and Functions Are Com- 

 prehensive. 



Another aspect of the broad outlook 

 of the experiment stations may be 

 seen in the comprehensiveness of 

 their organization and functions. This 

 is especially true of the American sta- 

 tions. Organized primarily as State 

 institutions they have been brought 

 together to form a great national sys- 

 tem of agricultural promotion, jiartly 

 by Federal legislation on their behalf 

 and their consequent relations with 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 and partly by voluntary union in the 

 Association of American Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations. 



The Federal legislation gave them 

 a broad and elastic charter, made 

 them strong and permanent institu- 

 tions, while at the same time it en- 

 abled them to undertake a great va- 

 riety of operations suited to their re- 

 spective environments, and supplied 

 the funds necessary to make their in- 

 vestigations substantial and far-reach- 

 ing. This legislation left the responsibil- 

 ity for their management and equip- 

 ment so largely in the States that their 

 local constituencies have felt the sta- 

 tions belong to them and have exert- 

 ed themselves more and more stren- 

 uously to secure from the State legis- 

 latures liberal appropriations for their 

 development. Thus the Federal grants 

 stimulated, rather than repressed, 



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{To be Continued') 



The beiry vines, that running thick, told 



blithesome Summer's story 

 Lie a tangled maze of brown in heaps of 



faded glory. 

 The frosts have tinted forest glade and 



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 And bob-o-link has sung good-bye and robin 



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 Drags out the old. Wafts in the new. No 



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 The earth so gay today is gray, for Winter 



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