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in part, by State funds. A number of substations are also main- 

 tained in different States. Excluding the substations, the total num- 

 ber of stations in the United States is 60. Of these, 55 receive appro- 

 priations provided for by acts of Congress. 



The total income of the stations maintained under the acts of 1887 

 and 1906 during 1906 was $2,017,492.12, of which $960,000 (Hatch 

 fund $720,000, xVdams fund $210,000) was received from the National 

 Government, the remainder, $1,057,492.12, coming from the follow- 

 ing sources: State Governments, $709,902.05; individuals and com- 

 munities, $8,304.37; fees for analyses of fertilizers, $100,186.57; sales 

 of farm products, $135,526.96; miscellaneous, $103,572.17. In addi- 

 tion to this the OiRce of Experiment Stations had an appropriation 

 of $197,900 for the past fiscal year, including $18,000 for the Alaska 

 experiment stations, $15,000 for the HaAvaii Experiment Station, 

 $15,000 for the Porto Rico Experiment Station, $20,000 for nutrition 

 investigations, $74,200 for irrigation and drainage investigations, and 

 $5,000 for farmers' institutes. The value of the additions to the 

 equipment of the stations in 1906 is estimated as follows ; Buildings, 

 $169,875.50; libraries, $22,080.29; apparatus, $57,439.98; farm im- 

 plements, $22,706.52 ; live stock, $51,977.68 ; miscellaneous, $22,812.75 ; 

 total, $346,892.72. 



The stations employ 950 persons in the work of administration and 

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

 work is as folloAvs: Directors, 52; assistants and vice-directors, 17; 

 special agents in charge, 3 ; chemists, 171 ; agriculturists, 47 ; agrono- 

 mists, 68 ; animal husbandmen, 72 ; poultrymen, 12 ; horticulturists, 

 101 ; farm and garden foremen, 31 ; dairymen, 45 ; botanists, 54 ; 

 plant pathologists, 21; entomologists, 76; zoologists, 4; veterina- 

 rians, 36; animal pathologists, 3; meteorologists, 8; foresters, 9; 

 mycologists, 5 ; biologists, 3 ; physicists, 5 ; geologists, 7 ; bacteri- 

 ologists, 25 ; irrigation engineers, 13 ; in charge of substations, 26 ; 

 secretaries and treasurers, 32; librarians, 14; clerks and stenogra- 

 phers, 55. There are also 64 persons classified under the head of 

 " miscellaneous," including superintendents of grounds and build- 

 ings, gardeners, farm mechanics, laboratory assistants, etc. Four 

 hundred and thirty- four station officers do more or less teaching in 

 the colleges with which the stations are connected. During the year 

 the stations published 463 annual reports, bulletins, and circulars, 

 which were supplied to over 758,000 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 bul- 

 letins and other special publications, and most of the stations report 

 a large and constantly increasing correspondence with farmers, on a 

 wide variety of topics. 



