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The total incoiiK' of the station.s nmintained under the act of 1887 dur- 

 ing 1903 was $1,4:^7.237.73, of which S72O,000 w^as received from the 

 National Government, the remainder, ^707,237.73, coming from the 

 following .sources: State governments, !^31,262.41; individuals and 

 conununities, $10,6«)0; fees for anah'ses of fertilizers, $99,864.23; sales 

 from farm products, $105,128.02; miscellaneous, $60,323.07. In addi- 

 tion to this the Office of Experiment Stations had an ai)propriation of 

 $161,000 for the past fiscal year, including $15,000 for the Alaska 

 Experiment Stations, $12,000 for the Hawaii Experiment Station, 

 $12,000 for the Porto Rico Experiment Station, $20,000 for nutrition 

 investigations, and $65, ooo for irrigation investigations. The value of 

 additions to the etiuipment of the stations in 1903 is estimated as 

 follows: Buildings, $135,581.16; libraries, $11,501.35; apparatus, 

 $18,552.41; farm implements, $15,123.98; livestock, $22,427.82; mis- 

 cellaneous, $33,183.89; total, $236,370.61. 



The stations employ 757 persons in the work of administration and 

 inquiry'. The number of officers engaged in the different lines of work 

 is as follows: Directors, 54; assistant and vice-directors, 19; special 

 agents in charge, 3; chemists, 160; agriculturists, 54; agronomists, 

 27; animal husbandmen, 39; poultry men, 7; horticulturists, 79; farm 

 and garden foremen, 39; dairymen, 34; botanists, 56: plant patholo- 

 gists, 4; entomologists, 50; zoologists, 6; veterinarians, 31; meteorol- 

 ogists, 10; biologists, 6; physicists, 6; geologists, 4; m3'cologists and 

 bacteriologists, 23; irrigation engineers, 11; in charge of sul)stations, 

 16; secretaries and treasurers, 27; librarians, 12; clerks and stenogra- 

 phers, 34. There are also 50 persons classified under the head of 

 "Miscellaneous,"' including superintendents of grounds and l)uildings, 

 apiarists, herdsmen, etc. Three hundred and seventy-five station offi- 

 cers do more or less teaching in the colleges with which the stations 

 are connected. Diu'ing the 3'ear the stations pul)lislied 371 annual 

 reports and bulletins which wei'e supplied to over half a million 

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

 than formerly supplemented their regular publications with more or 

 less freijuent issues of press bulletins and other special })u))lications, 

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

 respondence with farmers on a wide variety of topics. 



