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SCIENCE. 



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periments with plants, especially cereals; 

 experiments with hybrid orange trees; the 

 culture of sugar beets, dates and tobacco; 

 planting forest trees ; the nutrition of farm 

 animals and man; the gluten content of 

 wheat; plants poisonous to stock; soil in- 

 vestigations; injurious insects, especially 

 the codling moth and locust, and irrigation 

 investigation. 



THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



During the past year the work of the 

 Office of Experiment Stations has con- 

 tinued to increase by the addition of new 

 enterprises and the further development 

 of those previously undertaken. Agricul- 

 tural experiment stations under the direct 

 management of this Office have been estab- 

 lished in Hawaii and Porto Rico, and in 

 Alaska the station work has been extended 

 to include experiments in the Yukon Val- 

 ley. Both the nutrition and irrigation in- 

 vestigations have been conducted on a 

 larger scale than in previous years. The 

 amount of material prepared for publica- 

 tion during the year has exceeded that for 

 any similar period since the establishment 

 of the Office. Unusual opportunities have 

 been afforded for the study of the more 

 general problems relating to the organiza- 

 tion and development of agricultural edu- 

 cation and research, and there is good rea- 

 son for believing that along the lines 

 already laid the Office may be able in the 

 future to extend its usefulness in promo- 

 ting these important interests. 



ALASKA EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The experiment stations at Sitka and 

 Kenai have been continued and a station 

 has been established at Rampart in the 

 Yukon Valley. The chief new feature of 

 the investigations in Alaska during the 

 past year has been the more thorough study 

 of the agricultural possibilities of the in- 

 terior, especially of the Yukon Valley and 

 the Copper River region. For this pur- 



pose Professor Georgeson made journeys 

 through the Yukon Valley in the summers 

 of 1900 and 1901, and Mr. Isaac Jones, 

 who has been the assistant at Rampart, 

 traversed the Copper River region in 

 the summer of 1901. Through these 

 journeys definite information has been ob- 

 tained regarding the attempts at agricul- 

 tural operations, already made in the re- 

 gions traversed and the possibilities for 

 the extension of such operations. It was 

 shown that considerable quantities of 

 hardy vegetables, such as potatoes, cab- 

 bage, cauliflower, turnips, lettuce and 

 radishes are already being grown in 

 the interior and there are large areas 

 which may be used for this purpose 

 and also for the production of grasses and 

 forage plants. At the station at Rampart 

 rye and barley were matured. At Sitka 

 the experiments with cereals, forage crops 

 and vegetables were continued and a con- 

 siderable number of varieties were success- 

 fully grown. Good silage was also made 

 of native grasses stored in a log silo. 



At Kenai the experiments with cereals 

 and vegetables were continued with con- 

 siderable success. Seeds were distributed 

 to 400 persons living in different parts of 

 Alaska and a considerable number of re- 

 ports were received of those grown during 

 the season of 1900. It is evident that the 

 efforts of the Government to aid in the 

 development of agriculture in Alaska are 

 greatly appreciated by residents of that 

 Territory, and that they have already re- 

 ceived substantial benefits from the work 

 of the Alaska Experiment Stations. The 

 assistant director of this Office, Dr. E. W. 

 Allen, made a tour of inspection to the 

 stations at Sitka and Kenai and reported 

 favorably on their work. 



HAWAII EXPERIMENT STATION. 



The first appropriation for the establish- 

 ment and maintenance of an agricultural 



