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of agriculture. This cooperation, which is becoming so extensive in 

 the ITnitod States, nia}' be regarded as one of the characteristic fea- 

 tures of our station system. 



The information ol)tained regarding the revenue of the foreign sta 

 tions is quite fragmentary. A large number of the stations have no 

 fixed or separate revenue. Many of them are operated in connection 

 with other institutions, while others are maintained jointly by gov- 

 ernment and local appropriations, together with fees for analysis, 

 some agricultural society supplying the deficit. In most of the con- 

 trol stations and laboratories small fees are charged, and in many cases 

 these constitute quite a large proportion of the revenue of the station. 



In a large number of instances the total income reported amounts 

 to only a few hundred dollars, but in such cases the station or labora- 

 tory is usually connected with some other institution which probably 

 pays the salaries of the employees. A number of the German and 

 Austrian stations have quite liberal funds for maintenance. For 

 example, the station for moor culture at Bremen received about 

 $16,000 in 1900, the experiment station at Vienna over $20,000, and 

 the Halle station over $30,000, while the moor experiment station in 

 Denmark for several years past has expended over $70,000 annually. 

 The latter is conducted by the Danish Heath Society, which carries 

 on two large demonstration fields and about 40 small fields. 



While a number of the German stations receive as high as $15,000 

 a year from various sources, an income of over $5,000 a year is rather 

 the exception than the rule for European stations, and there are large 

 numbers whose income amounts to only $2,000 or $3,000. These 

 stations, however, are usually at no expense for buildings or for 

 printing, the publication of their work in periodicals often being a 

 small source of revenue; and as their fields are quite restricted in area 

 the expense for labor is reduced to a minimum. By the exercise of 

 rigid economy, and confining their efforts to a few specific lines of 

 work, many of these stations have accomplished a surprising amount 

 of high-grade work, which has contributed materially to the sum of 

 human knowledge in the field of agricultural science. 



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