Annual Report Of The Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station For 1912 Classic Reprint

Author : Frank D. Gardner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260672063
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station for 1903 (Classic Reprint) written by Frank D. Gardner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station for 1903 The following pages give, in general terms, the progress of the work of the Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station for the year ended June 30, 1908. T he appropriation made by the United States Congress for the year was For the year ending June 30, 1904, however, this amount has been increased to and now equals the sum which is appropriated annually to the experiment station in each of the States and Territories. The insular legislature also made an appropriation of 00 for the past year, to be used as follows: Drainage, $800; fencing, $500; tobacco investigations, $500; coffee investigations, $500; irrigation, $300; and painting, $100. As stated in the last report, the station did not secure possession of its new location until the last week in June, 1902. Considerable of the work of repairing was, therefore, done during the present year and paid for out of funds from the same year. The setting aside of a considerable area of Government land in the northeast part of the island for a forest reserve, as recommended in our last report, has been effected through the proclamation of the President, dated J an uary 17, 1903, and is known as the Luquillo Forest Reserve. It has been placed under the care of the Bureau of Forestry of this Depart ment, and is thus the first forest reserve to fall under the administra tion of this Department. Mr. C. R. Newton, clerk and stenographer to the station, resigned January 1 to accept a more responsible position as official stenographer to the supreme court of Porto Rico at San Juan. His place has been filled by Mr. E. C. Howe. Mr. P. A. English, farm foreman, resigned in February to take a place in the Treasury Department, and his place has been temporarily supplied by Mr. E. G. Bowersox. An examina tion has been held for the position of farm superintendent and it is probable that an appointment will be made to said position in a short time. Negotiations have been underway for some time in reference to the employment of a horticulturist, but thus far no one has been appointed. The horticultural work has been pushed vigorously, however, by Mr. O. W. Barrett, but to the necessary neglect -of his special investiga tions in botany and entomology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.