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own for instructional and experimental purposes, but the col- 

 lege has no means of distributing the surplus products of its 

 nursery and many of them go to waste. One nursery located on 

 the college grounds would serve all the purposes that the two 

 now serve. 



The Bureau of Agriculture also maintains an extensive estab- 

 lishment at Alabang for breeding horses, cattle, and hogs for 

 distribution and for sale. The splendid equipment there serves 

 only one purpose, that of producing animals. At the Agricul- 

 tural College, the teaching and experimental work in animal 

 husbandrj^ is lamentably weak for the want of just such equip- 

 ment as is at Alabang. Therefore, the Government faces the 

 alternative of purchasing at an expense of not less than 1*20,000 

 suitable live-stock equipment for the college or of transferring 

 to the college such of the animals now at Alabang as are needed 

 for teaching purposes. The animals will serve the purpose of 

 propagation quite as well at the college as at a separate breeding 

 station, and they will be even more useful for teaching purposes 

 if they are also made to serve as breeding animals and if their 

 offspring are distributed over the Islands. 



The work in agronomy, animal husbandry, horticulture, and 

 veterinary medicine in the Bureau of Agriculture and in the 

 College of Agriculture should be brought together, and each 

 division or subject should be placed in charge of one man in- 

 stead of being in charge of two as at present. This applies 

 to the experimental work as well as to the work in instruction 

 and extension. 



The Bureau of Forestry. — The forest resources of the Islands 

 are very important, indeed, and there is no reason to suggest 

 a curtailment of the work of the Bureau of Forestry any more 

 than it would be wise or profitable to curtail the activities of 

 the Bureau of Agriculture or of the College of Agriculture. 

 But it will greatly simplify the organization of the work, with- 

 out interfering in any degree with the efficiency of the Bureau 

 of Forestry, to have the Bureau made a division of the Bureau 

 of Agriculture or a part of the Agricultural College. 



The Veterinarif College. — The live-stock interests of the Phil- 

 ippine Islands are not likely to be developed to such an extent 

 as to require the services of many veterinarians. There are 

 perhaps fewer than a dozen cities in the Islands that could 

 support a private veterinarian. It is not likely that the Govern- 

 ment will need more than an average of one veterinarian to 

 each province. Thus there is room for not more than 50 or 

 60 veterinarians in the Islands. Allowing an average of twenty 



