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ally supporting the various agricultural agencies that have been 

 established is heartily ratified, on the basis of experience, by the 

 intelligent agricultural public. 



If this institution is to meet the increasing demands made upon 

 it, it must have more liberal financial support and it is for this 

 reason that your Board has asked for enlarged resources for the 

 following fiscal year. 



The items decided upon are as follows: 



For salaries $60. 000 



For labor 18, 000 



Maintenance of work of Station departments 28, 000 



Investigations in the interests of grape growing 10, 000 



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



Total $121 . 500 



It has become the policy of the State to regulate, through inspec- 

 tion laws, the sale of various conmaercial articles important to 

 the farmer, including commercial fertilizers, concentrated feed- 

 ing stuffs, fungicides and insecticides, and agricultural seeds. In 

 addition to this, all glassware used in measuring the fat content 

 of milk and creaim, where such products are bought on the fat 

 basis, must be inspected and marked by this institution. The first 

 inspection law enacted in this State related to commercial fer- 

 tilizers, which was followed some years later by an act regulating 

 the sale of concentrated feeding stuffs. There has gradually fol- 

 lowed inspection along the other lines mentioned. 



The chemical and other scientific work involved in this inspec- 

 tion has all been placed among the required duties of the Director 

 of this institution, but for only two lines of inspection, viz., fer- 

 tilizers and feeding stuffs, are special funds provided to meet the 

 necessary expense. Whatever has previously been accomplished 

 in the analysis of fungicides and insecticides, in the examination 

 of agricultural seeds and in the testing and marking of Babcock 

 glassware has been done by the use of funds not appropriated for 

 these purposes. The time has now come when there must be some 

 recognition in our maintenance appropriation of the expense in- 

 volved in these required duties. 



