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obtain suitable rooms or accommodations except at New 

 Haven, where the station is now located ? 



Prof. Brewer. Yes, sir ; we could obtain anything with 

 the money. 



Question. What is the present annual appropriation ? 



Prof. Brewer. Five thousand dollars. That covers all 

 the expenses such as have not been heretofore covered by 

 gift. The present year, there is an income of about seven 

 hundred dollars additional to that from the licenses for the 

 sale of commercial fertilizers. Then there is a small sum 

 which comes in for analyses made for private parties. Dealers 

 and others sometimes send in fertilizers for analysis, and the 

 station claims the privilege of retaining and using the money 

 that is paid for those analyses. We have had one case (I will 

 give it as an illustration) where a man sat right down in our 

 midst and manufactured a fertilizer from mud which was raised 

 out of the harbor, and sold it as a fertilizer specially adapted 

 for certain crops. That is what some people like, and they 

 would rather pay such a man twenty-five dollars for a spurious 

 fertilizer than pay five dollars for having it stopped. 



Mr. Hart;. Soon after the commencement of the analyzing 

 of fertilizers in this State, I was on a train going to New 

 York, and a couple of gentlemen, strangers to me, sat in the 

 seat behind me, and I overheard some of their conversation. 

 I heard the words " Experiment Station," and one gentleman 

 said to the other, " Oh, all you have to do is to send a check 

 in there, and you can get sucli a report as you have a mind 

 to." I turned round and said, " Gentlemen, you do not know 

 the men who are at the head of that institution, when you 

 make that assertion." 



Mr. Bill. I have been for the last thirty years, every year 

 about the legislature, asking them to do something to advance 

 the agricultural interests of the State, and, sir, Mr. Hinman 

 has stated to you the fact, tliat the only opposition to the 

 farmers' interest comes from the farming members of the 

 legislature. That is true. I have been to the leading talk- 

 ing men, representing the cities of the State, and told them 



