Show “ Student Life amount of money is a clear gift by the workers in scientific agriculture to the American people The entire cost of the Department of Agriculture which includes the Forest Service Meat Inspection Food and Drug Inspection and other lines too numerous to name is about fifteen million dollars annually or d of the output of Durum wheat in 1907 This is another example of how results of years of patient research repay the public for the money they spend An important line of work of the Experiment stations and the National Department is agricultural extension By this is meant the extension of the areas upon which certain crops may be profitably grown This is accomplished by various means One is the introduction of suitable varieties and species frcm other countries The Department has “agricultuial explorers” traveling in all countries in search of desired plants The man who introduced the Durum wheat was an “agricultural explorer” Another means is to breed crops up in the pcwer of resisting adverse conditions An almost unlimited amount of extension has been done in this way The Department and the Experiment stations in the south have greatly ex- tended the rice area by practicing one-thir- 27 this method Ten years ago Arkansas was not thought capable of producing rice but last year ( i 907 1 this state was second or third in rice production Hundreds of thousands of acres of Arkansas swamp land — once entirely unused — have been made to produce millions of dollars worth of rice It is probable that California will soon be a great state as much extension work with rice is now being done there The scientific agriculturists are working and their efforts are sure to bring results It is not at all necessary however to go out of our own state to find good results of the work of scientific agriculturists The Utah Experiment Station has “paid for itself” many times and it has only begem Time is one of the greatest requisites in agricultural work Yet although the Utah station is only about ninteen years old it has already justified its existence The work the station has done in arid farming alone has increased the value of hundreds of thousands of acres of Utah land more than a thousand per cent besides bringing about a remarkable increase in the farm products of the state The station’s work in research and demonstration in the codling moth problem has already more than rice-produci- ng |