The San Francisco call., 1898-11-29
IMPORTANT WORK FOR A BERKELEY
 INSTRUCTOR Will Test the Soil of the Philippines.
ORDERS FROM WASHINGTON
HAYNE TO MAKE OFFICIAL IN.
 VESTIGATION.
A Lieutenant From the State Uni versity Ordered to Report Upon the Agricultural Resources
 Around Manila.

| BERKELEY, Nov. 28-Iieutenant A P. | Hayne, an instructor in the agricultural | department of the University of Califor- mia, now stationed with one of the Cali | fornia regiments at Manila, has been de- | tailed to conduct an official investigation 1 into the agricultural resources of the Philippines and to make a report of the results to Washington.
 The news of Lieutenant Haynes ap- | pointment was received at the University of California to-day from Manila. The l professors in the agricultural depart ment look upon 1t a signal honor con ferred upon their recent associate. Lieu tenant Hayne is old pupil of Professor E. w. Hilgard He graduated some years ago from Berkeley in the College of Nat ural Sciences, taking special work in agriculture. Subsequently he accepted an instructorship in the same subject and later became assistant professor of viti- culture and oliveculture. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted as a commissioned officer. with the rank of second lieuten- ant, and went to Manila with the Philip pines expedition.
 The appointment to this new work was made after communications between Sec retary of Agriculture Wilson and General Merritt. The Department of Agriculture requested detailed information respecting the resources of the islands, their cli- matic conditions, the productiveness of
  features. General Merritt's selection fell at once upon Lieutenant Hayne, and the Berkeley instructor was asked to carry out the orders from Washington.
 AS to the plans to be pursued in execu- tfOn of the orders, no specific information has yet been received. But 1t is under stood that an exploration party will be formed immediately for the purpose of making extended excursions through the islands. These expeditions will be TOT the purpose of Investigating the entire vege- table product of the country. Careful at tention will be paid to collecting and pre- serving specimens and obtaining accurate decriptions and reports. When fully com pleted the whole will be embodied in a book to be issued by the Agricultural Bureau, although partial reports may be put in pamphlet form and published from time to time.
 In addition to the work of exploration, Secretary Wilson's order calls for the establishment of a United States agricul- tural experiment station. The selection and procuring of site for this work is to be done later, after some of the more general instructions have been carried out The station itself will extend over sixty acres of land. On Ihis a station house Is to be erected which will form base for all experimenting, and where the collections of specimens will be stored.
 In assuming charge of this important undertaking, Lieutenant Hayne was given full permission to choose the asso- made his selection almost entirely from the University of California boys now at Manila. Some of them are graduates anu others have finished their second or third year in the scientific colleges, so their as- sistance is expected to be invaluable.