SS4 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



for nutrition investiii'ations. $100,000 for irrigation investigations, 

 $100,000 foi- 'drainage investigations, and $10,000 for farmers' insti- 

 tutes and agncultural schools. The value of the additions to the 

 equipment of the stations in 1911 is estimated as follows: Buildings, 

 $448,708.75; libraries, $80,148.02; apparatus, $74,847.74; farm imple- 

 ments, $54,689.53; live stock, $99,594.68: miscellaneous, $231,717.04; 

 total, $939,705.76. 



The stations employ 1,564 persons in the work of administration 

 and inquiry. The number of officers engaged in the different lines of 

 work is as follows: Directors, 57; assistant directors, 22; chemists, 

 293: agriculturists, 32; agronomists, 139; animal husbandmen, 101; 

 dairymen, 77; veterinarians, 57; entomologists, 107; botanists, 84; 

 horticulturists, 131; poultrymen, 32; plant pathologists, 54; zoolo- 

 gists, 10 ; meteorologists, 9 ; pomologists, 5 ; foresters, 22 ; mycologists, 

 2; biologists, 9; geologists, 2; plant breeders, 12; bacteriologists, 58; 

 animal pathologists, 8: viticulturists, 3; soil specialists, 34: irrigation 

 engineers, 22 ; agricultural engineers and farm, mechanics, 21 ; ex- 

 tension work and farmers' institute directoi-s, 27; in charge of sub- 

 stations, 54 ; farm and garden foremen, 62 ; secretaries and treasurers, 

 33; and librarians, 19. 



There are also 59 persons classified under the head " Miscellaneous," 

 including gardeners, laboratory and field assistants, herdsmen, edi- 

 tors, inspectors, etc. Five hundred and fifty-two station officers do 

 more or less teaching in the colleges with wdiich the stations are con- 

 nected. During the year the stations puplished 566 annual reports, 

 bulletins, and circulars, which were supplied to over 1,012,520 ad- 

 dresses on regular mailing lists. Most of the stations report a large 

 and constant iy increasing correspondence with farmers on a wide 

 variety of topics. 



