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part by State funds. A number of substations are also maintained 

 in diiferent States. Excludin*2: the substations the total number of 

 stations in the United States is GO. Of these, 55 receive appropria- 

 tions provided for by acts of Congress. 



The total income of the stations maintained under the act of 1887 

 during 1005 was $1,515,734.47, of which $718,163.45 was received 

 from the National Government, the remainder, $797,571.02, coming 

 from the following sources: State governments, $540,407.31; indi- 

 viduals and communities, $8,925.80; fees for analyses of fertilizers, 

 $82,428.32; sales of farm products, $93,058; miscellaneous, $72,091.59. 

 In addition to this the Office of Experiment Stations had an appro- 

 priation of $177,500 for the past fiscal year, including $15,000 for 

 the Alaska experiment stations, $15,000 for the Hawaii experiment 

 station, $15,000 for the Porto Rico experiment station, $20,000 for 

 nutrition investigations, $07,500 for irrigation investigations, and 

 $5,000 for farmers' institutes. The value of additions to the equip- 

 ment of the stations in 1905 is estimated as follows: Buildings, 

 $08,834.28; libraries, $10,119.29; apparatus, $19,100.09; farm imple- 

 ments, $14,021.59; live stock, $23,802.27; miscellaneous, $19,010.20; 

 total, $155,019.72. 



The stations employ 845 persons in the work of administration 

 and inquir}'. The number of officers engaged in the different lines 

 of work is as follows : Directors, 56 ; assistant and vice-directors, 18 ; 

 special agents in charge, 3 ; chemists, 166 ; agriculturists, 58 ; agrono- 

 mists, 44; animal husbandmen, 56; poultrymen, 12; horticulturists, 

 82 ; farm and garden foremen, 30 ; dairymen, 39 ; botanists, 50 ; plant 

 pathologists, 11; entomologists, 05; zoologists, 4; veterinarians, 30; 

 meteorologists, 8; foresters, 4; mycologists, 4; biologists, 3; physi- 

 cists, 5; geologists, 8 ; bacteriologists, 18 ; irrigation engineers, 13; in 

 charge of substations. 27; secretaries and treasurers, 30; librarians, 

 12; clerks and stenographers, 46. There are also 54 persons classi- 

 fied under the head of " miscellaneous," including superintendents 

 of grounds and buildings, gardeners, farm mechanics, laboratory 

 assistants, etc. Four hundred and twenty-three station officers do 

 more or less teaching in the colleges with which the stations are 

 connected. During the year the stations published 403 annual re- 

 ports and bulletins, which were supplied to over 731,000 addresses 

 on the regular mailing lists. A larger number of stations than 

 formerly supplemented their regular i)ublications with more or less 

 frequent issues of press bulletins and other special publications, and 

 most of the stations report a large and constantly increasing cor- 

 respondence with farmers on a wide variety of topics. 



