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Tlie stations now employ 688 persons in the work of administration and inquiry, 

 as compared with 693 the previous year. There are 52 directors, 146 chemists, 62 

 agriculturists, 14 animal husbandmen, 78 horticulturists, 21 farm foremen, 31 dairy- 

 men, 49 botanists, 48 entomologists, 6 zoologists, 29 veterinarians, 14 meteorologists, 

 7 biologists, 5 physicists, 5 geologists, 21 mycologists and bacteriologists, 8 irrigation 

 engineers, 12 officers in charge of substations, 29 seci-etaries and treasurers, 11 libra- 

 rians, and 40 clerks. Besides these there are 77 persons unclassified, including super- 

 intendents of gardens, grounds, and buildings, apiarists, herdsmen, poultrymen, etc. 

 During the year the stations published 445 annual reports and bulletins, as compared 

 with 386 the previous year, which were supplied to over half a million addresses on 

 the regular mailing lists. A larger number of stations than formerly supplemented 

 their regular publications with press bulletins or circulars, issued at irregular intervals. 



State appropriations for substations have been made as follows: In Kansas, $3,000 

 a year for the establishment and maintenance of a substation at the Fort Hays Reser- 

 vation; in Michigan, $2,000 for the South Haven Fruit Substation and $3,000 for the 

 Chatham Substation; in Minnesota, $11,200 for improvements at the substations, 

 which are maintained l)y State appropriation; in Texas, an increase of the appropri- 

 ation for the Beeville Substation from $5,000 to §7,500 for two years and $5,000 per 

 annum for a new substation, which has been located at Troup; in Oregon, $5,000 a 

 year for two years for a substation in eastern Oregon; in Utah, $6,000 for two years 

 to establish a fruit experiment station in southern Utah; in Washington, $11,200 for 

 the substation at Puyallup, including $2,000 for improvements. Alabama has con- 

 tinued State aid to the Canebrake Station, $2,500, and to the Tuskegee Station, $1,500; 

 and Missouri has appropriated $26,525 for buildings and maintenance for the new 

 State Fruit Experiment Station. 



With the aid of funds given by the States, buildings have been erected during the 

 past year at a number of the agricultural colleges, which will be use* it whole or in 

 part by the experiment stations. Wyoming has just completed a new science hall 

 at a cost of $35,000. The New York State Station has erected a residence for the director 

 and is now expending about $8,500 in remodeling the old residence into an adminis- 

 tration building. North Dakota has erected two barns at a cost of $18,000 to replace 

 the barn burned last year. Pennsylvania has finally completed and equipped its 

 calorimeter building. Oregon has a new $3,000 station building; Storrs Agricultural 

 College, a new dairy building; Alabama, a veterinary dissecting building and a new 

 chemical laboratory; Colorado, an insectary; AVashington, a greenhouse and insec- 

 tary; Virginia, a new main barn and a piggery and al^attoir; the Missouri State 

 Fruit Experiment Station, a new station building; Kentucky, a barn for curing 

 lobacco; New Jersey, a new barn, and Idaho, a piggery. 



Referees ok Association' of 0ffici.\l Agricultural Chemists. — The executive 

 committee has announced the following list of referees and associates for the year 

 1902: Phosphoric acid: Referee, C. H. Jones, Burlington, Vt. ; associate, B. H. 

 Kite, Morgantown, W. Va. — Potash: Referee, H. B. McDonnell, College Park, Md.; 

 associate, Charles B. Beistle, State College, Pa. — Nitrogen, determination of nitrogen: 

 Referee, Fred W. Morse, Durham, N. H.; associate, Edward B. Holland, Amherst, 

 Mass. — Separation of nitrogenuns bodies: Referee, L. L. Van Slyke, Geneva, N. Y.; 

 associate, R. Harcourt, Guelph, Ontario. — Soils: Referee, F. P. Veitch, Washington, 

 D. C. ; associate, C. C. Moore, Washington, D. C. — Dairg prodnds: Referee, George 

 W. Cavanaugh, Ithaca, N. Y.; associate, C. A. Browne, jr.. State College, Pa. — Foods 

 and feeding stuffs: Referee, C. A. Browne, jr.. State College, Pa.; associate, F. D. 

 Fuller, Geneva, N. Y.—Food adidteration: Referee, W. D. Bigelow, Washington, 

 D. C. (meat and fish, fermented and distilled liquors); associates, L. M. Tolman, 

 Washington, D. C. (fats and oils, dyes); A. McGill, Ottawa, Canada (cereal prod- 

 ucts) ; H. W. Wiley, Washington, D. C. (infant and invalid foods); A. E. Leach, 

 Boston, Mass. (saccharine products); L. S. Munson, Waslungton, D. C. (vegetables — 



