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maintenance fund. 



The legislative appropriations for the maintenance of the Station 



during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1914, were as follows: 



Salaries $52,000 



Labor 16,000 



For meeting the general expense of the Station departments 24,000 



General expenses including heat, light, water, repairs, etc 5,500 



For special grape investigations 7,500 



For field, orchard and sanitary milk investigations 15,500 



For special investigation in hop culture 5,000 



Total $125,500 



For the analyses of samples of fertilizers, feeding stuffs, fungicides, in- 

 secticides and agricultural seeds submitted by the State Commissioner 



of Agriculture, and for the examination of Babcock glassware $16,000 



The following are the appropriations available for the current 

 fiscal year: 



Salaries for scientific staff $52,000 



Labor 17,000 



Necessary expenses of Station departments 23,000 



General expense including heat, light and water 5,500 



Investigations in grape culture 7,500 



For field, orchard, truck, garden crops and sanitary milk investigations. . 14,500 



Repairs, Dairy and Biological Building and forcing houses 1,500 



Total $121,000 



For the analyses of samples of fertilizers, feeding stuffs, fungicides, in- 

 secticides and agricultural seeds submitted by the State Commissioner 



of Agriculture, and for the examination of Babcock glassware $16,000 



The appropriations which your Board has requested from the 

 Legislature for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1914, are as 

 follows : 



General salaries of members of scientific and clerical staffs $56,560 



Necessary expenses of investigations, excluding salaries, but including 

 chemicals, scientific apparatus, machinery, fertilizers, cattle foods, 

 maintenance of working animals, traveling expenses and other necessary 

 expenses, in conducting researches at the institution, and throughout 

 the State in soils, plant nutrition, horticulture, diseases of plants, in- 

 jurious insects, bacteriology, animal nutrition, dairy practice and poultry 



^ keeping 23,000 



Services of laborers, including janitors, poultryman, engineer, herdsman, 

 dairy helper, foreman of orchards, florist and gardener, general mechanic, 



watchman, teamsters, farm and other common labor 18,340 



General expenses, including heat, light, water, general equipment and 



general repairs 5,500 



