No. 7. . DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 419 



Aijpropriations for promotion of Agriculture by the Pennsylvania 



State Legislature for 1905-6. 



Funds available from October 1, 1905, to September 30, 1907. 



State Board of Agriculture #3,500 



Department of Agriculture, 90,000 



Dairy and Food Division, 174,800 



Nursery inspeoliou, 60,000 



Feeding stuffs, 5,000 



Special investigations, 5,000 



Diseases of dojuestic animals, 40,000 



Live stock sanitary board, 90,000 



CJniversitv of Pennsvlvania, buildings for veterinary med- 

 icine, ". ■; 100,000 



School of Agriculture, Pennsylvania State College, build- 

 ings, 77,500 



School of Agriculture. Pennsylvania State College, mainte- 

 nance, 30,000 



Experiment Station, Pennsylvania State College, mainte- 

 nance, 10,000 



$685,800 

 Returned to State Treasury by Dairy and Food Division, 162,580 



1523,220 



The agriculture of a state may be promoted in three ways: First, 

 by research or scientific experiment to determine new truths relat 

 ing to agriculture; second, by education in and for agriculture; and 

 third, by the enforcement of the laws and other executive and police 

 powers. These three functions are by no means the exclusive func- 

 tions of the state and are not exercised exclusively by the state, but 

 the state has recognized that they are state functions by the estab- 

 lishment of the Department of Agriculture for executive and police 

 functions atHarrisburg and by the establishment of the School of 

 Agriculture and the Experiment Station at State College, I havr 

 shown you that the State Department of Agriculture has plenty of 

 precedent in asking the Legislature for its just needs; that it is con 

 ducting its executive enterprises and police powers at very much less 

 cost than New York State. It would not be proper for me to sa:y 

 anything further about the development of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, but I may without impropriety outline to you briefly what 

 the needs of the State School of Agriculture and the Experiment Sta- 

 tion at State College are. I am able to do this largely as an outsider. 

 Frequently one can see a situation from the outside perhaps better 

 than if he were on the inside. 



I next invite your attention to the annual appropriation for mainte- 

 nance of agricultural education and research, that is, exclusive of 

 buildings or betterments, in the four states of Pennsylvania, New 

 York, Illinois and Ohio for the present fiscal year: 



