1002 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Agricultural experiment stations are now in operation under the 

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

 Agricultural experiments have been begun in Alaska with the aid of 

 national funds, and an experiment station is in operation in Hawaii 

 under private auspices. In each of the States of Alabama, Connecti- 

 cut, New Jersey, and New York a separate station is maintained 

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

 experiments is maintained partly by funds contributed by sugar 

 planters. Excluding the branch stations established in several States, 

 the total number of stations in the United States is 54. Of these, 

 52 receive the appropriation provided for in the act of Congress 

 above mentioned. The total income of the stations during 1898 was 

 $1,201,921.17, of which $720,000 was received from the National Gov- 

 ernment, the remainder, $481,921.17, coming from the following sources: 

 State governments, $341,097.94; individuals and communities, $177.20; 

 fees for analyses of fertilizers, $54,977.30; sales of farm products, 

 $05,356.25; miscellaneous, $20,312.48. In addition to this, the Office 

 of Experiment Stations had an appropriation of $35,000 for the 

 past fiscal year, including $5,000 for the Alaskan investigation. The 

 value of additions to equipment of the stations in 1898 is estimated 

 as follows: Buildings, $109,851.65; libraries, $11,700.73; apparatus, 

 $19,195.43; farm implements, $10,800.27; live stock, $13,151.33; mis- 

 cellaneous, $11,972.97; total, $176,469.41. 



The stations employ 669 persons in the work of administration and 

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

 is as follows: Directors, 75; chemists, 148; agriculturists, 71; experts 

 in animal husbandry, 10; horticulturists, 77; farm foremen, 29; dairy- 

 men, 21; botanists, 50; entomologists, 46; veterinarians, 26; meteorolo- 

 gists, 20; biologists, 11; physicists, 11 ; geologists, 6; mycologists and 

 bacteriologists, 19; irrigation engineers, 7 ; in charge of substations, 15; 

 secretaries and treasurers, 23; librarians, 10, and clerks, 46. There 

 are also 21 persons classified under the head of " miscellaneous," includ- 

 ing superintendents of gardens, grounds, and buildings, apiarists, 

 herdsmen, etc. Three hundred and five station officers do more or less 

 teaching in the colleges with which the stations are connected. 



During 1898 the stations published 406 annual reports and bulletins. 

 Besides regular reports and bulletins, a number of the stations issued 

 press bulletins, which were widely reproduced in the agricultural and 

 county papers. The mailing lists of the stations now aggregate half a 

 million names. Correspondence with farmers steadily increases and 

 calls upon station officers for public addresses at institutes and other 

 meetings of farmers are more numerous each year. The station officers 

 continue to contribute many articles on special topics to agricultural 

 and scientific journals. A number of books on agricultural subjects, 

 written by station officers, have been rmblished during the past year. 



