OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



An Office in the United States Department of Agriculture. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The work of the Office of Experiment Stations during the past year, 

 as heretofore, has included the supervision of the expenditures of the 

 stations; conferences and correspondence with station officers regard- 

 ing the management, equipment, and work of the stations; the collec- 

 tion and dissemination of information regarding the progress of agri- 

 cultural education and research throughout the world by means of 

 technical and popular bulletins; the management of the agricultural 

 experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. The special 

 investigations on the nutrition of man and on irrigation assigned to 

 this Office have been conducted on a larger scale than f ormerly, largely 

 in cooperation with experiment stations, educational institutions, and 

 other agencies in different States and Territories. The Office also did 

 considerable work in connection with the collective experiment-station 

 exhibit at the Paris and Buffalo expositions. 



INCOME. 



The income of the Office during the past fiscal year, derived wholly 

 from appropriations by Congress, was as follows: 



For the general business of the Office $33, 000 



For the Alaska experiment stations 12, 000 



For the Hawaii experiment station 10, 000 



For the Porto Rico experiment station 5, 000 



For nutrition investigations 15, 000 



For irrigation investigations 50, 000 



Total 125, 000 



PUBLICATIONS. 



During the year the Office issued 52 documents, aggregating 3,843 

 pages. These include 14 numbers of the Experiment Station Record, 

 with detailed index, 18 bulletins, 5 farmers' bulletins, 1 report, 2 Con- 

 gressional documents, 3 circulars, 3 articles for the Yearbook of the 

 Department, and 6 special articles published as separates. 

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