NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 19 



cultural College, while the two Stations have their own 

 function, namely, the work of experimentation and re- 

 search. We of the two Stations feel that we are engaged 

 in a work that appeals not very strongly to public imag- 

 ination. It does not get much publicity as the work of 

 education or demonstration, but it is, nevertheless, a fun- 

 damental work. It is work which has got to be done. It 

 is work which is necessary preparatory work. It may be 

 work which goes on for a period of years and at the end 

 of that time not have very much to show for it, or which 

 will call public attention to it. On the other hand, it may 

 be work which is of the largest benefit to the agriculture 

 of the state. This whole matter of spraying orchards 

 which we first introduced into the state more than twenty 

 years ago, was introduced initially in an experimental 

 state. It has now grown to be regarded as one of the 

 necessary things in all branches of orchard culture. We 

 are all engaged in that kind of work. Many experiments 

 with different spraying materials and apparatus have been 

 carried on. Many of those questions are questions of ex- 

 perimentation. We are engaged in that kind of work, 

 carefully and accurately studying different methods and 

 materials, also different fertilizers for orchards. We are 

 studying questions connected with the care and develop- 

 ment of peach orchards. We are carrying on at the pres- 

 ent time studies of the insect problems as they have orig- 

 inated in this state. These are matters which require care- 

 ful and accurate experimental work, and it is to that kind 

 of work the Stations are confined, leaving, therefore, the 

 educational work to the Agricultural College. Now that 

 does not mean that we at the Station fall out of it alto- 

 gether. We expect and are assured that the Agricultural 

 College in the management of this work will call for as 

 much work as the Station can give, and which we shall 

 most gladly render. 



