Report Of The Federal Experiment Station In Puerto Rico 1947

Excerpt from Report of the Federal Experiment Station in Puerto Rico, 1947: Issued October 1948 The College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the University of Puerto Rico, located adjacent to the station, frequently utilized the station facilities in field demonstrations to students. The two agencies also cooperated in the installation of a new sewage line to take care of the needs of both institutions. The extension service of the University Of Puerto Rico gave the finest cooperation to the station in the distribution of plant material, particularly tropical kudzu, bamboo, and usda - 34 sweet corn. The Federal and Insular Forest Services made labor available to the station for the propagation and distribution of newly introduced bamboos. Several thousand offsets of bamboo were planted on water sheds throughout the mountainous areas of Puerto Rico. The Insular Forest Service continued to make areas of land available at Two Negro, Maricao, and Guanica, for the testing of various tropical plants and for the cinchona and vegetable programs Of the station. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.