EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. III. ISSUED FEBRUARY, 1892. No. 7. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Agricultural experiment stations are now in operation under the act 

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

 except Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. In several States the United 

 States grant is divided, so that 49 stations in 46 States and Territories 

 are receiving money from the United States Treasury. In the States ot 

 Alabama, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York sep- 

 arate stations are maintained entirely or in j)art by State funds, and in 

 Louisiana a station for sugar experiments is maintained mainly by funds 

 contributed by sugar planters. In several States branch or substations 

 have been established. If these be excluded, the number of stations in 

 the United States is 55. During the past year o new stations have been 

 established, viz, in Washington, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. The sta- 

 tions with this Office received during 1891 about $925,000, of which 

 $680,000 was ap]n'opriated from the National Treasury, the rest coming 

 from State governments, private individuals, fees for analyses of fer- 

 tilizers, sales of farm products, and other sources. The stations employ 

 473 persons in the work of administration and inquiry. The number of 

 officers engaged in the different lines of work is as follows: Directors 

 70. chemists 113, agriculturists 47, horticulturists 50, botanists 30, ento- 

 mologists 36, veterinarians 22, meteorologists 14, biologists 4, viticul- 

 turist 1, physicists 4, geologists 2, mycologists 3, microscopists 2, 

 irrigation engineers 3, in charge of substations 26, secretaries and 

 treasurers 24, librarians 7, clerks 19. There are also 43 persons clas- 

 sified under the head of miscellaneous, including superintendents of 

 gardens, grounds, and buildings, foremen of farms and gardens, apia- 

 rists, herdsmen, etc. 



During 1891 the stations published 49 annual reports and 255 bulle- 

 tins. The maihng list of the stations now aggregates about 350,000 

 names. At a low estimate a total of 40,000,000 pages, containing 

 information on agricultural topics, have been disseminated among the 

 people during the past year; furthermore the results and jirocc'sses of 



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