I
Abandonment of all the Agricul- :
tural Experiment Stations of the
United States Department of Agri- !
culture after June 30, next, is indi- j
cated by the failure of the Federal
Bureau of Budget to recommend,
any appropriations for that work,'
or for maintaining the stations.
The budget, which was recfently
transmitted to Congress, does not
carry any reference to the item.
If Congress does not restore the
item, it will be necessary to close
uie stations, and transfer the per
sonnel to the States.
Efforts to find out the reason
for the elimination of the estimates
for this service from the budget
were made here without result.
Questioned about the matter, Chas.
H. Flory, Alaska Commissioner for
the Department of Agriculture, said
he had discovered that the budget
had stricken the customary appro
priation but that he had not been
informed of and did not know any
reason for the action. “I have no
information as to why the cut was
made, and cannot, therefore com
ment on that phase of the subject,”
he said.
He acknowledged, however, that
the result of the cut would be to
wipe out all of the Federal gov
ernment’s agricultural experiment:
projects in Alaska, the closing down s
of the stations, and probably the
sale, or transfer, of all plants in- €
eluding equipment and stock. i
“This naturally would be the pro- j
cedure to be followed,” ire suid., t
“If we have no funds, of course, i *
we cannot keep the stations on an j,
operating basis, and the personnel I‘
now engaged in conducting the j ,
| work would be shifted to j;ther
I fields where similar activities are j
I carried on by the Department.
I “It is probably that the Federal j
! government will instruct me to j
' tender the stations and their equip- j
j ment to the Territorial government j
! if it desires to take over the exper- j
j iment service on its own behalf. |
If the Territory does not care to
| do this, then the next step prob- i
ibly will be to offer everything for -
ale to private interests.”
At one time stations were cperat
cl at Kodiak, Rampart, Fairbanks,
/latanuska and Sitka. At present,
•■"1y t-:o stations are maintained—
'it’*a and MaVanu.ska. The Alaska
Agricultural College and School of
-Tines took over the Fairbanks sta
tion last year. Rampart was closed
several years ago, and Kodiak
more recently.
The McCarthy school was ordered
to be discontinued on the first of
January because the attendance
has dropped to one pupil, says the
Chitina Herald.
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