EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. 2. FEBRUARY, 1891. No. 7. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Agricultural experiment stations are now in operation under tlie act 

 of Congress approved March 2, 1887, in all the States and Territories 

 except Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. In 

 several States the United States grant is divided, so that 46 stations in 

 43 States and Territories are receiving money from the United States 

 Treasury. In each of the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New 

 Jersey, and New York a separate station is maintained, entirely or in 

 part, by State funds, and in Louisiana a station for sugar experiments 

 is maintained mainly by funds contributed by sugar planters. In sev- 

 eral States branch or substations have been established. If these be 

 excluded the number of stations in the United States is 52. During 

 the past year 6 new stations have been established, viz., in Northern 

 and Southeastern Alabama, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, and 

 Utah. The stations, with this OfiQce, received in all during 1890 about 

 $915,000, of which $600,000 was appropriated from the National Treas- 

 ury, the rest coming from State governments, private individuals, fees 

 for analyses of fertilizers, sales of farm products, and other sources. 

 The stations employ 428 i>ersons in the work of administration and in- 

 quiry. The number of officers engaged in the different lines of work 

 is as follows: directors, 60; chemists, 101; agriculturists, 63 ; horticul- 

 turists, 47; botanists, 42; entomologists, 33; veterinarians, 19; mete- 

 orologists, 11; biologists, 4; viticulturists, 2; physicists, 3; geologist, 

 1; mycologists, 2; microscopists, 4; irrigation engineer, 1; in charge 

 of substations, 16; secretaries and treasurers, 21 ; librarians, 5 ; clerks, 

 17. There are also 42 station officers not included in the foregoing- 

 classification. These are superintendents of gardens, grounds, and 

 buildings, foremen of farms and gardens, dairymen, apiarists, herds- 

 men, engineers, laboratory assistants, etc. 



During 1890 the stations published 36 annual reports and 225 bulle- 

 tins. The mailing list of the stations now aggregates about 340,000 

 names. At a low estimate a total of thirty-five millions of pages con- 



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