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discovery of new truths in the field of agricuhural science. Already 

 two full professors have been appointed in the Experiment Station 

 whose sole duty is research. One is to work in the field of plant 

 physiology and the other is grappling with some of the numerous 

 problems that arise in soil physics and soil chemistry with special 

 reference to the problems of different kinds of soil under different 

 treatment. 



The expansion of the w^ork in the Federal Experiment Station 

 has been made possible by the Act of Congress approved March 6, 

 1906, providing for an increased annual appropriation for Federal 

 Experiment Stations and by the concurrent resolutions relative to 

 this Act of Congress adopted by the Senate and Assembly of the 

 State of New York on April 19, 1906. The annual increase to the 

 appropriation for Experiment Stations made by this x\ct is $5,000 

 for the first year and a further increase of $2,000 a year for the 

 next five years, making the annual amount to be paid to each State 

 and Territory $30,000 instead of $15,000 as heretofore. By the 

 concurrent resolutions above mentioned it is provided that in New 

 York State nine-tenths of the increase shall be assigned to the 

 Federal Experiment Station at Cornell University and the other one- 

 tenth to the State Experiment Station at Geneva, this being the pro- 

 portion in which the original appropriation of $15,000 annually, as 

 provided by the Experiment Station or Hatch Act of jMarch 2, 

 1887, was divided between the two stations. The Act provides 

 that the Federal appropriation for experiment stations shall be 

 applied " only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting 

 original researches or experiments bearing directly on the agri- 

 cultural industry of the United States, having due regard to the vary- 

 ing conditions -and needs of the respective States and Territories." 



The work of the Experiment Station and of the College of Agri- 

 culture is very varied and extensive. For a complete description 

 of it I beg to refer to the accompanying reports of the Director 

 and heads of the several departments, which are to be regarded as 

 an integral part of this report. Instruction and research in agri- 

 culture are necessarily expensive. The Federal Government holds 

 the Stations to strict accountability for all their expenditures, which 

 are regularly reported with expenditures itemized. This report 

 includes a statement of the expenditure of State funds, which are 

 all carefully guarded by the State Commissioner of Agriculture. 

 The list of the staff of instruction in the New York State College 

 of Agriculture and of the Federal Experiment Station on September 



