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are also maintained in different States. Excluding the substations, 

 the total number of stations in the United States is G2. Of these, 55 

 receive appropriations provided for by acts of Congress. 



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

 and 1000 during 1909 was $3,053,446.90, of which $1,248,000 (Hatch 

 fund $720,000, Adams fund $528,000) Avas received from the National 

 Government, the remainder, $1,805,440.90, coming from the follow- 

 ing sources: State governments, $1,034,803.75; individuals and com- 

 munities, $13,199.93; fees for analyses of fertilizers, $144,320.52; sales 

 of farm products, $220,001.70; miscellaneous, $393,114.94. In addi- 

 tion to this, the Office of Experiment Stations had an appropriation 

 of $314,020 for the past fiscal year, including $20,000 each for the 

 Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico experiment stations, $5,000 for the 

 Ouam Experiment Station, $7,000 for nutrition investigations, $150,- 

 000 for irrigation and drainage investigations, and $10,000 for 

 farmers' institutes and agricultural schools. The value of the addi- 

 tions to the equipment of the stations in 1909 is estimated as follows: 

 Buildings, $400,747.93; libraries, $21,220.48; apparatus, $46,691.71; 

 farm implements, $28,723.50; live stock, $56,281.63; miscellaneous, 

 $124,890.02 ; total, $744,501.93. 



The stations employ 1,242 persons in the work of administration 

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

 work is as follows: Directors, 57; assistant and vice-directors, 22; 

 special agents in charge, 4; chemists, 240; agriculturists, 43; agrono- 

 mists, 138; plant breeders, 12; animal husbandmen, 88; animal nu- 

 trition, 14; poultrymen, 19; horticulturists, 130; floriculturists, 5; 

 pomologists, 5; farm and garden foremen, 31; dairymen, 71; botan- 

 ists, 71; plant pathologists, 41; plant physiologists, 5; entomologists, 

 102; zoologists, 0; veterinarians, 40; animal pathologists, 5; meteor- 

 ologists, 12; foresters, 18; mycologists, 3; biologists, 9; physicists, 

 11; geologists, 2; bacteriologists, 47; irrigation engineers, 12; agri- 

 cultural engineers, 10; extension workers and farmers' institute 

 directors, 17; in charge of substations, 34; secretaries and treasurers, 

 34; and librarians, 15. There are also 61 persons classified under 

 the head " Miscellaneous," including superintendents of grounds and 

 buildings, gardeners, farm mechanics, laboratory and field assistants, 

 etc. Five hundred and two station officers do more or less teaching in 

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

 the stations published 517 annual reports, bulletins, and circulars, 

 winch were supplied to over 912,000 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. 



