While the Office remained in the States Relations Service, most of the publications were carried on as productions of the Service, excepting the Experiment Station Record, which the Office con tinued to manage as one of its major functions. After the reorgani zation of 1923, the Record continued to be the principal regular publication of the Office. 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 110 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 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 ments. The departments of horticulture and of agronomy are equipped with adequate tools and implements. The best agricultural library in the territory is that belonging to the Hawaii station, containing about five thousand volumes. No live-stock belongs to the station other than the work animals. The Porto Rico experiment station is at Mayaguez. It possesses a tract of about 235 acres, and it has control of another tract of about 200 acres. Of the first tract, thirty-five acres are utilized in crop experiments, and the remainder is used for pasture, horticultural plantings, and kindred purposes. The two-hundredacre plot is of low mountain land, and it is reserved for experiments in forestry, horticulture, and the like. The buildings include a concrete and tile building, which is used for office and laboratory purposes; residences for the Agronomist in charge of the station and two or three members of the staff; some barns, tool sheds, and some minor structures. The laboratory field equipment and library are fairly adequate for the ordinary needs of the station, and a small dairy herd of Guernsey and grade cattle is supplied along with some work animals. The Guam experiment station has some 230 acres, of which thirty acres are located near Piti, the port of the island. About two hundred acres located nearly ten miles from the Piti farm are used for experiments in stock raising. About the only buildings are a residence and office building, with some sheds for the implements and stock. The equipment of farming implements and laboratory facilities is limited, but the library is fairly adequate. The live-stock includes two Morgan horses for breeding service, eight pure-bred Ayrshire cattle, twenty grade cattle, a dozen purebred and grade Berkshire pigs, some goats, and some chickens. The only work animal at the station is a carabao. The Virgin Islands experiment station, which is located on the island of St. Croix, has about 215 acres, but much of it is not arable. The buildings comprise two residences, a small office and laboratory building, and several barns and sheds for stock and implements. Equipment for the entomological and chemical laboratories is moderately supplied, and the equipage for the field work is adequate. The live-stock is limited almost entirely to some work animals and a few native cows. Organization APPENDIX 5 LAWS (A) INDEX TO Laws Establishment of the Office of the Experiment Stations.....24 Stat. L., 440 Office of Experiment Stations made a subordinate unit of the States Relations Service..... .38 Stat. L., 1086, 1108 Office of Experiment Stations made a unit in the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture.... Personnel1 Chief .42 Stat. L., 1291 .24 Stat. L., 440 42 Stat. L., 1291 Departmental, including Office of Experiment Stations.....12 Stat. L., 387 Territorial and Insular Stations. Alaska Guam Hawaii Porto Rico Virgin Islands Activities' Current activities Original activities Advice and assistance to state stations..... .42 Stat. L., 1291 .30 Stat. L., 6 .35 Stat. L., 251 .31 Stat. L., 191 .31 Stat. L., 922 .40 Stat. L., 973 Expenditures of national funds by state stations Information diffused Investigations by state stations promoted... .42 Stat. L., 1291 12 Stat. L., 505 24 Stat. L., 440 .24 Stat. L., 440 received...24 Stat. L., 440 .38 Stat. L., 1086 .24 Stat. L., 440 38 Stat. L., 372 .24 Stat. L., 440 .24 Stat. L., 440 .24 Stat. L., 440 Uniformity of methods of state stations promoted Territorial and insular experiment station, General activities Publications Printing and distributing the results of experiments... 1 .42 Stat. S., 1291 .24 Stat. L., 440 Personnel largely created by administrative order pursuant to appropriation acts, and on the general principle provided by the act of May 15, 1862 (12 Stat. L., 387). 2 The activities are stated general terms in the annual appropriation acts, and most of the specific activities are developed by administrative order. |