Arizona republican., 1902-12-05

Washington, Nov. 4.-The annual re-
 port of the Hon. James F. Wilson. sec retary of agriculture opens with ref erence to the educational work of the department, which he says has grown in effectiveness since his last annual report. He finds that the demands or many public institutions for men to conduct research in scientific fields and for ability to manage agricultural en- terprises encourage young men to take advantage of the opportunities thus afforded. The teaching of the science of agriculture and of the sciences re-
 lating tu it are receiving more attention in the colleges instituted for the pur- pose. many of which have neglected their full duty in the past.
 Extensive studies were made of com
 mercial trees during the year, and studies of the forest and its industrial relations were made in Michigan, Ken lucky, Ohio, Texas. New Mexico. Ari zona, South Dakota. Wyoming, Mon tana, California and Iowa. Among the questions involved were the present and future timber supply, forest fires, rela- tion of the forests to stream flow, irri gation and grazing. The bureau has discovered less injurious method of
 turpentine orcharding than that hith erto employed.
 Cooperation with the bureau of ,c chemistry and in response to urgent demands, the series of tests to deter
 mine the strength of the principal mer- chantable timbers-discontinu in 1896 have been taken up.
 Tn tree planting the bureau has ! private land owner Up to the close of
 the last fiscal year 262 applications for assistance had been received, nearly 100000 acres examined, and PA plans
 made. Not only does example set by each plantation affect the neighbor-
 hood. but in many cases it has led to
 public agitation of the question or tree planting, and extensive planting on other land has frequently followed. 1 The study of the San Jose scale in
 Japan and China and the importation | of it's ladybird enemy has been an i'm portant feature of the years work in
 the division of entomology, besides inn port2tions of foreign beneficial insects, work with the South African cross | hybrid fungus, and the sending abroad | of some of the beneficial insects of this country. In cooperation with the bu-
 reau of forestry the entomologist is in
 vestigating the insect enemies of for l Csts. Valuable results have attended l the investigation of the Mexican cot
 ton-bou weevil, and the possibility of | controlling moth in the northeast has ! been demonstrated. The direct relation ] to the comfort and health of human | beings of the mosquito and other in
 sects has aroused great popular inter-
 est, and these investigations are being | followed up with advisory work and
 the study of new problems. Experi- mental work with insecticides and in
 vestigations of the insect enemies of drug crops, greenhouse and ornamental
 plants, orchard fruits. cereals and for | age crops have been continued The subject of silk culture in the United | States, placed under the charge of the entomologist by congress, is being thor
 oughly investigated. The secretary re- ports the practical success of Smyrna
 fig culture in California, and predicts that in a very few years Smyrna fig orchards will be in bearing in many
 places in California, and doubtless in
 other western states where clmatic conditions are favorable.
 In apiculture the work has included
 an importation of select breeding
 queens from Italy and smaller impor-
 tations from Austria and Cyprus. Very
 favorable reports of these queens have | been received.
 The distribution and use of western
 rivers requires legislation on the irri-
 gation industry, which, in turn, ren-