50 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



men from one station to another when the new departments came to 

 be organized. A larger number of men thoroughh' trained as agri- 

 cultural investigators is the greatest need of agricultural investiga- 

 tion to-day, and the provision for this advanced work which has been 

 made by the Adams Act will stimulate men to prepare themselves 

 for this field of activity. 



One of the tendencies of recent years has been to restrict the in- 

 struction given by the station force to a small amount, leaving 

 them free to devote their best energies to experiments and investiga- 

 tion. In several instances there has been a movement toward pro- 

 viding a ])ractically separate staif for the station work, whose mem- 

 bers should be either entirely free from teaching or only called upon 

 for a small amount of advanced instruction. This tendency has been 

 increased by the passage of the Adams Act and the provision for a 

 larger amount of research, for it is recognized as impracticable for a 

 man to carry on the two kinds of work with equal efficiency. For 

 administrative reasons, also, the provision of a force of men whose 

 duties are primarily connected with the station is often an advantage. 

 The time is past when the needs of the station work can be satisfied by 

 consulting experts or those who give only fragments of time to it, 

 and with the increased appropriations which are now being received 

 from the General Government and from tlic States, there seems every 

 reason w^hy the station work should be organized on the basis of the 

 greatest efficiency, irresj^ective of the instruction work of the college. 



PROGRESS OF THE STATIONS. 



The States as well as the General Government have recognized the 

 increasing importance of the station work and its local value. This 

 is evidenced by increasing special appropriations for maintenance 

 and by liberal approjiriations for buihlings. 



The Xew Jersey Station was placed in charge of an appropria- 

 tion of $350,000 for work looking toward the extermination of the 

 mosquito, and in Kentucky a feed-inspection law went into operation 

 which, it is expected, will yield the station about $15,000 a year. In 

 Illinois, where the station has received $05,000 a year for several 

 years, the amount was increased by $10,000. In Iowa over $80,000 

 was given, mainly foi- extension of the dairy :ind live-stock work. 

 The Ohio Station received $100,900 for (he biciuiial period; the Min- 

 nesota Station. $:'.7.000: Nebraska, $-J0.0()0: Missoliri, $15,000, and 

 Utah, $i!l.O()0. Iji .Mai'vland the aimual apjirojn-iation was increased 

 from $5,000 to $10,000, and $4,000 was given for horticultural experi- 

 ments. In all, the stations received from the States and other sources 

 than llic Federal a|>|)r()|)iMn( inn a total of $1,057,40'2.1l'. making the 

 jrrantl total from State and Federal sources $'J,017,-402.12. 



