1916] EDITORIAL. 5 



t3'pes of farming, closely correlated Avith a strong central station at 

 the college. This system is supported by a lump sum appropriation 

 of $13r>,()()() annually, together with proceeds from sales amounting 

 tt) upwards of ten thousand more. This shows a liberality and confi- 

 dence quite out of harmony Avith the present tendency in some States 

 to tie up the appropriations to specified expenditures and lines of 

 work, and to take away from the station any incidental revenue 

 derived from sales or fees. 



The New Mexico Station is encouraged and heartened by its first 

 state appropriation for support, which although small is of material 

 assistance. One of its special features of equipment is a spacious 

 outdoor laboratory for studying the duty of water in agriculture, 

 hardly equaled anywhere. The facilities offered in Arizona aie ex- 

 cellent and would be a surprise to one visiting the station for the first 

 time. Among notable additions are a splendid new agricultural 

 building, a pride to any State and an ornament to any campus, and 

 a nevf farm of 100 acres to better meet the needs of field work in the 

 Salt River Valley. 



We have learned to expect large things of California, but the ex- 

 tent to which it is meeting the needs of its varied agriculture, from 

 the tropical region of the Imperial Valley to the northernmost part 

 of the State, leaves no doubt of the place the station work has made 

 for itself in that State. A citrus station is being developed in the 

 southern end which will be unequaled in the world, with opportu- 

 nity for investigation and advanced stud}^ over the whole range of 

 siibtropical agriculture. The new^ tract of 475 acres at Kiverside, 

 recently purchased for this station at a cost of $55,000, is now being 

 made ready, and the plans have been approved for buildings to be 

 erected with a $125,000 appropriation. At Berkeley a $360,000 addi- 

 tion to the large agricultural building erected a few years ago is 

 planned for, to relieve the crow^ded condition of nearly all the agri- 

 cultural departments. 



Elsewhere the progress is hardly less noticeable, if not on as large 

 a scale. Missouri and Kansas some time ago provided their com- 

 plement of buildings for agriculture, and are constantly increasing 

 the special facilities in the w ay of equipment and apparatus. Minor 

 changes are also developing in other States to meet the needs of 

 particular lines of investigation, such as the veterinary work in 

 Nevada, the poultry work in Utah, etc. Few stations, irrespective 

 of size, have more adequate equipment for investigation in chemistry 

 and meteorology than in Nevada, and the special provision made in 

 Missouri and Kansas for studies in the use of feed by growing ani- 

 mals is widely known. 



