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amounts to $9,300. In addition to that there are some small 

 receipts from miscellaneous sources. When it is considered 

 that of the fifty-seven experiment stations in the United 

 States, but one other receives regularly from public sources 

 less than $15,000, and while some have annual incomes of 

 $25,000, $50,000, and even more than that, and that further- 

 more the resources of the Agricultural College with which 

 the station is connected are such as to permit it to furnish 

 but very limited aid to the station in the form of buildings, 

 laboratories, libraries, and land, and while a large number of 

 other stations enjoy very extensive facilities of this sort 

 through their connection with well equipped and well en- 

 dowed colleges and universities, it is evident that the Storrs 

 Station could not compete with its sister institutions in either 

 the quality or the quantity of its work were it not for some 

 special advantages. 



Now right here, and incidentally, let me call your atten- 

 tion to what some of the states are doing. New York, a great 

 State, of course, has two. One of them has an income of 

 about $75,000. It is the largest experiment station in the 

 world. Illinois has stood well by its station, and aside from 

 the resources which that station has from the U. S. Gov- 

 ernment, and the great advantages which it received from 

 being connected with a large university, it receives $54,000 

 a year of special appropriations from the State for the study 

 of special narrow questions. I beheve one is the cultivation 

 and raising of corn. They have learned there that it is wise 

 to devote large sums of money to the study of what seemed 

 to be very simple and very narrow questions. The farmers 

 of the State of Illinois have persuaded their fellow citizens 

 that it is wise to be thus generous in giving aid from the 

 pubhc funds to such institutions. 



To return, however, to the Storrs Station. I said it would 

 not be possible for the Storrs Station to compete with some 

 of its sister institutions were it not for some special advan- 

 tages. Such a fortunate advantage is found in the fact that 

 through the generosity of the trustees of Wesleyan University 

 the chemical and biological researches of the station are con- 

 ducted in the laboratories of that institution, so that the 

 station has certain opportunities of this sort which are shared 

 only by the most fortunate stations elsewhere. Furthermore, 



