APPENDIX 4 PLANT AND EQUIPMENT The Office of Experiment Stations is quartered in one of the auxiliary buildings of the Department of Agriculture at 220 Fourteenth Street, Southwest, Washington, D. C. Here, on the fifth floor are the rooms occupied by the Chief of the Office and his clerical assistants, the offices of the Division of Relations with the State Experiment Stations, and of the Division of the Experiment Station Record. The plants and equipment in the field outside of Washington are located at the territorial and insular stations, and they vary according to the needs of these stations. Equipment of the Alaskan Stations. Each of the five Alaska experiment stations is supplied with areas of land varying from II0 to 2500 acres, but no station has much more than one hundred acres that can be cultivated. Hundreds of acres are in reservation for grazing or other purposes. Each station is furnished with equipage sufficient to its needs. At Sitka the experiment station has approximately one hundred and ten acres, which were set aside by the Executive Order of August 12, 1898, but much of it is not arable. The station includes a headquarters building with an adequately furnished office and residence; two cottages, a greenhouse with potting rooms, a root cellar, and a barn. The necessary stock of tools and machinery with which to conduct experimental work is supplied, and a small library of experiment station publications and other works on agriculture and horticulture is kept fairly well up to date. The Kodiak station is situated on a reservation of three hundred acres, including much pasture land. It also has access to a live-stock reservation of 2500 acres on Kolsin Bay, which is about fifteen miles from Kodiak. A small office and a dairy building, a couple of cottages, barns for horses and cattle, and some silos compose the major buildings. Farming implements and machinery are provided for a restricted amount of agriculture, and a limited equipment for dairy investigations is maintained, but there is 140 PLANT AND EQUIPMENT 141 practically no laboratory equipment at the station. The live-stock consists of six horses, about twenty pure-bred Galloway and Holstein cattle, thirty crossbreeds, and a small flock of sheep. Fairbanks was recognized as a fortunate location for an experiment station when President Roosevelt issued an Executive Order on March 22, 1903, setting aside about fourteen hundred acres of land for its use. At present about one hundred acres are in cultivation. The buildings are not as modern as those of some other stations. They consist of a log house and a log barn, neither of which is in first class condition, and of a silo, a root cellar, and minor structures. Enough machinery and tools are provided to operate a farm of one hundred acres. While Alaska College is located at Fairbanks, there is at the experiment station no laboratory equipment. The station's live-stock ordinarily consists of three horses, three head of milking Shorthorn cattle, and a few pigs and goats. At Rampart there is an experiment station reservation of three hundred acres, which was set aside for station purposes by Executive Order on February 6, 1909. About one-tenth of this reservation is cultivated. There are only two buildings: a cottage which serves as an office and residence, and a barn. No equipment has been provided as yet, excepting some farm implements. The Matanuska station is established on a reservation of 880 acres, of which only a part is cultivable. In 1923 about thirty acres had been cleared and planted with crops. The buildings include a cottage, a barn, a silo, root cellar, and some implement sheds. No laboratory equipment has yet been supplied. The live-stock includes two horses, seven Shorthorn and six Galloway cattle, and about twenty sheep. Equipment of the Insular Station. Adjacent to the city of Honolulu, the Hawaii agricultural experiment station occupies a tract of about 178 acres. Much of it, however, rests on steep and rocky mountains, and obviously is not cultivable. The buildings consist of an office and laboratory building, a chemical laboratory, a horticultural hall, and three cottages in which reside some members of the station staff. Although the laboratories of chemistry, plant pathology, and entomology were apparently well equipped in 1923, only the chemical equipment was in use owing to the impossibility of satisfactorily filling vacancies in the other depart grade cattle is supplied along with ion has some 230 acres, of which Piti, the port of the island. About arly ten miles from the Piti farm ck raising. About the only buildings ing, with some sheds for the implement of farming implements and but the library is fairly adequate. Morgan horses for breeding service, , twenty grade cattle, a dozen pure[s, some goats, and some chickens. station is a carabao. ent station, which is located on the t 215 acres, but much of it is not e two residences, a small office and ral barns and sheds for stock and e entomological and chemical laborand the equipage for the field work is mited almost entirely to some work S. Chief Departmental, including Office of Experimer Territorial and Insular Stations.. Alaska Guam Hawaii Porto Rico Virgin Islands Activities Current activities Original activities Advice and assistance to state stations..... Expenditures of national funds by state stati Indexes made and sold. Information diffused Investigations by state stations promoted.... Reports of state stations received..... 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