378 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
one State are brought to the attention of the people in all the States. ' 
Last year, in pursuing that work, you will observe by looking at the 
report of the general editor of the Department, there were issued 
from the office of experiment stations farmers’ bulletins amounting to 
just about two million copies, or one-third of the total output of the 
Department. Now those bulletins, for the most part, recorded the 
results obtained from the experiment stations in different States and 
also kindred institutions in other countries. They were put in pop- 
ular form, and of course they were called for by members of Congress, 
which means that there was a general demand for them. It is that 
general work of promoting the interests of the agricultural colleges 
and experiment stations and preparing publications based upon the 
publications of these institutions that constitute the principal work of 
the office of experiment stations. 
Mr. Grarr. Those bulletins were issued by the experiment station 
itself, were they? 
Doctor Trur. No; the experiment station in any one State issues its 
own bulletin. It is required under the law to issue one at least every 
three months. We get all the bulletins of all the stations here,at 
Washington. Then we work them over in various forms, taking out 
of them those results more especially which are of general application, 
and on the station bulletins from ali the States we make up farmers’ 
bulletins that are distributed in the regular way by the members of 
Congress and by the Department, the object being to make the results 
obtained in any one State available to the farmers in all the other 
States, so far as their use throughout the country goes. 
Mr. Scorr. Immediately following that appears here this statement: 
‘*Fifteen thousand dollars of which sum shall be expended by the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture to investigate and report to Congress upon the 
agricultural resources and capabilities of Alaska.” 
The Cnatrman. And it goes on: ‘‘And to establish and maintain 
agricultural experiment stations in said Territory.” Doctor, I wish 
you would recast this paragraph. Alaska is injected there right in the 
middle of what you might call the legislation requiring you to look 
after certain matters relating to experiment stations. I would take 
those three stations, the Alaskan, the Hawaiian, and the Porto Rican, 
and put them together. 
Doctor Truz. Yes; this paragraph is, of course, the growth of years, 
and the language has seemed to work all right. 
me CuarrmaNn. Do not change the language, but just change the 
order. 
Mr. Hewry. It is a repetition of the same language. Could it not 
be continuous and say ‘‘the stations of Porto Rico, Hawaii, and 
Alaska?” 
The Cnarrman. We give each one of them $15,000. 
Mr. Henry. Well, the provisions are practically the same. 
Doctor Trux. There are some little differences. There is at least 
one difference that I think of now. In the case of Alaska we under- 
take to publish everything here at Washington, there being no facili- 
ties of publication there. In the other cases we publish in the islands 
themselves. 
Mr. Scorr. I was misled by the insertion of that semicolon after 
*‘Alaska.” Iread it this way: ‘‘ Fifteen thousand dollars of which 
sum shall be expended by the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate 
