, 1905-01-24
THE W0Rkk0 OF
THE STATION
INTERESTING LETTER FROM d.
RECTOR suFFUM TO EDITOR
OF BUFFALO BULLETIN.
Thanks Latter for Editorial EXPIRES
sion Regarding Efficiency and
Need Of Department and Points
Way for Broader knowledge of Az
ricuIturaI Conditions.

Prof. B. c. Buffum, of the chair of
agriculture u. the state university,
writing in regards to and article under
the above heading in a recent issue of
the Buffalo Bulletin, says:
There is an editorial on Farmers
Institutes" in the Bulletin, of January
5, for which l wish to thank you. Not
only do I appreciate the personal re-
ference to myself and the work We are
attempting to do for the upbuilding of
the states agriculture and the pros
perity of our people, but your state
ments of the value of the scientific
work of our experiment station, and the
Importance to III ranchmen of receiv-
ing and using them, ring true. | be
stockmen who are as much awake, and
as eager for information to help them
in their business as are those in any
state, but they have been widely scat
tered and each one so occupied with
his pioneer struggle to gather in the
first fruits of a virgin soil. that he has
only just begun to realize that there
may be a better way and that there
may be kinks" in the business which
wuold increase his profits. Commun-
ity interests are rapidly taking the
place of the hunter and trapper and
the nomadic ranging of live stock, but
We have hardly begun to realize the
possibilities of the irrigation farming
and improved methods of stock rails
ing which are before us.
1t seems to me there is great need
of bringing together the results Of sci
%entific investigation and the men who
can make practical use of them and
the method which has succeeded best
in other states is the farmers insti-
tutes. It is important now at the time
of our rapid growth that farmers
should take advantage of every help,
and the greatest stimulus for future
growth and building would be the
increased success and prosperity at
home. Since our experiment station
was established fourteen years ago,
the general government has expended
in wyoming more than 100000, for
agricultural research, and to inform
others of the results of this research
we have published and distributed
more than 500, 900 copies of bulletins
Last year we gave a two weeks short
course for ranchmen at the university
and in my opinion the personal ac.
quaintance and inverse with the sew
enty-five ranchmen who attended the
course brought more hearty apprecia-
ton of our work than all the publica-
tons We have issued.
This year we are again Offering a
short course of two weeks which we ex-
pect will be given January 80, to Feb
ruary IL, and we are hoping for the
same attendance from distant parts
OF the state. If our farmers would be-
come sufficiently interested to hold a
few local institutes We will aid in ev-
cry way we can. Outside of IL pub.
locations the experiment station funds
can not be expended for instruction.
II our legislature could be prevailed on
to divide the amount appropriated for
a wolf bounty, using one-half the sum
appropriated two Years g to provide
fer protection from predatory animals.
and with the other half support inves-
litigation and instruction, it would mean
a much more vast return to the state
in our agricultural improvement, and
our law makers would make for them
selves greater glory Oh the pages Of
our future history. and receive greater
blessing during the time of their lives
from a more prosperous people. Nor,
is this all, for they would put Wyoming
more nearly in the line with other
states where provision is made for such
helps to material advancement.