Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations (U.S.)

Alaska. Agricultural Experiment Stations
Alaska Experiment Stations (U.S.)
United States. Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations
United States. Department of Agriculture. Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations
United States. Office of Experiment Stations. Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations

found: Its Annual report ... 1907:t.p. (Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations; C.C. Georgeson, special agent in charge; Office of Experiment Stations, U.S. Department of Agriculture); Its Report ... 1933: t.p. (Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations, Juneau, Alaska) p. 2 Headquarters 1st at Sitka, 1898-1931, finally in Juneau, 1931-32; supervised substations elsewhere in Alaska; apparently only facility in Juneau was the headquarters) p. 3 (Only Fairbanks and Matanuska Stations in operation by 1932; both transferred by that year to Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines) p. 1 (In 1932 control by USDA terminated)

found: Its Report on agricultural investigations in Alaska (1906). Report on agricultural investigations in Alaska, 1905:t.p. (Alaska Experiment Stations; U.S.); p. 3 (Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations)

found: Wikipedia, December 23, 2015:Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station article ("The Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES) [then called, Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations] was established in 1898 in Sitka, Alaska")

found: Progress report, no. 1 (July-December 1931)title page (Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, Agricultural Experiment Station) page 4 ("... continuing until May 1, 1931, the station was under the immediate direction of the Division of Insular Stations, Office of Experiment Stations of the Department of Agriculture") page 6 ("This act was approved February 20, 1931, and Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to turn over to the Agricultural College and School of Mines of Alaska the tract of land and buildings near Fairbanks") page 7 ("Therefore, on May 1, 1931, the westerly two sections of land together with the buildings and most of the machinery and other equipment, passed into the final ownership of the College.")

found: Report of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1931, 1932 (issued February 1933):title page (Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations, Juneau, Alaska) page 2 ("Sitka continued to be used as the headquarters of the station until October 1, 1931, when they were transferred to Juneau")

[Beginning in 1898 the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations were established in various locations in the State. In 1931 the Stations were placed under control of the University of Alaska; when the University reorganized ca. 1971 they became part of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.]