274 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



$62,950.11; live stock, $35,124.59; miscellaneous, $382,079.32; total, 

 $938,750.53. 



The stations employ 1,403 persons in the work of administration 

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

 of Avork is as follows : Directors, 56 ; assistant and vice directors, 23 ; 

 special agents in charge, 4; chemists, 268; agriculturists, 43; agron- 

 omists, 160; horticulturists, 130; floriculturists, 6; pomologists, 6; 

 viticulturists, 4; foresters, 19; plant breeders, 14; botanists, 76; plant 

 physiologists, 5; plant pathologists, 47; mycologists, 3; bacteriolo- 

 gists, 48 ; animal husbandmen, 98 ; dairymen, 81 ; veterinarians, 51 ; 

 animal pathologists, 7 ; poultrymen, 25 ; zoologists, 8 ; entomologists, 

 107 ; meteorologists, 11 ; biologists, 8 ; physicists, 11 ; geologist, 1 ; irri- 

 gation engineers, 16 ; agricultural engineers and farm mechanics, 12 ; 

 extension workers and farmers' institute directors, 24; in charge of 

 substations, 54; farm and garden foremen, 30; secretaries and treas- 

 urers, 31; and librarians, 19. There are also 40 persons classified 

 under the head " Miscellaneous," including gardeners, laboratory 

 and field assistants, herdsmen, editors, etc. Five hundred and fifty- 

 two station officers do more or less teaching in the colleges with 

 which the stations are connected. During the year the stations pub- 

 lished 583 annual reports, bulletins, and circulars, which were sup- 

 plied to over 952,000 addresses on the regular mailing lists. A larger 

 number of stations than formerly supplemented their regular publi- 

 cations with more or less frequent issues of press bulletins and other 

 special publications, and most of the stations report a large and con- 

 stantly increasing correspondence with farmers on a wide variety of 

 topics. 



