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±ef8 for analyses of fertilizers, $80,942.36; sales of farm products, 

 1105,644.00; miscellaneous, $50,187.91. In addition to this, the Office 

 of Experiment Stations had an appropriation of $139,000 for the past 

 fiscal year, including $12,000 for the Alaska experiment stations, 

 $12,000 for the Hawaiian investigations, $12,000 for the Porto Rican 

 investigations, $20,000 for nutrition investigations, and $50,000 for 

 irrigation investigations. The value of additions to the equipment of 

 the stations in 1902 is estimated as follows: Buildings, $176,113.78; 

 libraries, $11,941.98; apparatus, $19,727.94; farm implements, 

 $14,982.56; live stock, $20,654.27; miscellaneous, $19,509.09; total, 

 $262,829.62. 



The stations employ 710 persons in the work of administration and 

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

 work is as follows: Directors, 53; assistant and vice-directors, 18; 

 special agents in charge, 3; chemists, 151^ agriculturists, 54; agrono- 

 mists, 7; animal husbandmen, 25; horticulturist!^, 73; farm foremen, 

 25; dairymen, 34; botanists, 50; entomologists, 50; zoologists, 6; 

 veterinarians, 27; meteorologists, 12; biologists, 8; physicists, 5; geol- 

 ogists, 4; m3'cologists and bacteriologists, 20; irrigation engineers, 

 9; in charge of substations, 14; secretaries and treasurers, 25; libra- 

 rians, 10; and clerks and stenographers, 41. There are also 103 persons 

 classified under the head of *■' miscellaneous," including superintendents 

 of gardens, grounds, and buildings; apiarists, vegetable, plant, and 

 animal pathologists; herdsmen, poultry men, etc. 



Three hundred and sixty-four station officers do more or less teach- 

 ing in the college with which the stations are connected. 



The activity and success of the stations in bringing the results of 

 their work before the public continue unabated. During the year 

 they published 373 annual reports and bulletins, which are many more 

 than are required by the Hatch Act. These were supplied to over half 

 a million addresses on the regular mailing lists. A larger number of 

 stations than formerly supplemented their regular publications with 

 more or less frequent issues of press bulletins, and most of the stations 

 report a large and constantly increasing correspondence with farmers 

 on a wide variety of topics. 



