Complimentary Banquet to Luther Burbank 



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stock-raising. These bulletins, together with the Agricultural 

 Year Book, comprise an encyclopedia of knowledge and in- 

 formation relating to the farm that is invaluable. 



There are eight bureaus under the direction of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, each having several divisions: 

 The Weather Bureau. 

 Bureau of Animal Industry. 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. 

 Bureau of Chemistry. 

 Bureau of Soils. 

 Bureau of Statistics. 

 Bureau of Entomology. 

 Bureau of Forestry. 



There are also fifteen divisions of special investigation, 

 such as the botanical, pomological, biological survey, labora- 

 tory, etc., with a corps of educated and practical professors 

 in their special lines. A number of them are graduates of 

 the Leland Stanford Jr. University and the University of 

 California, which are respectively presided over by the two 

 distinguished presidents who honor us with their presence here 

 this evening. 



These different bureaus in the Agricultural Department 

 are quietly doing their splendid work; and, like smokeless 

 powder, we do not see where the shells come from, but the 

 report is felt on every farm in the country. We feel these 

 benefits in our forest reserves, by the preservation of our 

 forests and the planting of trees on the San Gabriel and other 

 forest reser^^es in California ; we feel them when we learn the 

 adaptability of certain soils to the cultivation of cereals, the 

 improvement of live stock, and their prevention from disease. 

 We feel the beneficial effects in the forecasts of the weather ; 

 the warnings given to the farmer of the coming of rain, frost 



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