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salaries from those institutions, wliicli also, in many cases, furnish 

 buildings and equipment. Furthermore, the stations in numerous 

 instances supply dwellings for the members of the station staffs. 

 The amounts here given ))iust, therefore, fall very far short of repre- 

 senting the actual revenues of the stations. 



Many of the stations are located in connection with educational 

 institutions, but are sejiarate in their organization. Others are prac- 

 tically departments of such institutions. Thus at Halle are two 

 statums, both connected with the university. One is the station of 

 the Agricultural Central Society of the Prussian province of Saxon3^ 

 It was originally established under the auspices of that society on a 

 farm at Salzmiinde, some 8 miles from the city of Halle, but was 

 transferred in 1865 to the Agricultural Institute of the University, 

 one of whose professors is its director, and on whose grounds it has a 

 large building for laboratories and residence of director and assist- 

 ants. Besides this, the Agricultural Institute conducts experiments 

 through its chief and his associates in the work of instruction, the 

 organization ranking in this list as an experiment station. No ac- 

 count is made of the cost of work in the above financial statistics. 



The working staffs of the stations include seventy-three directors 

 and one hundred and forty-nine assistants, making a total of two 

 hundred and twenty-two scientific specialists, besides five secretaries 

 and a number of janitors, laborers, servants, etc. 



Twenty-nine stations exercise control of fertilizers, twenty-seven of 

 feeding stuffs, and thirty-three of seeds, by analyses and inspection of 

 commercial wares. Four stations are charged with the inspection of 

 foods and beverages. Eight stations are organized with especial 

 reference to more purely scientific research. Fifteen are conducting 

 investigations in vegetable physiology, nine in animal physiology and 

 nutrition, two on soils, three in dairying, four in sugar-beet culture, 

 two in fruit and vine culture, one in agricultural physics, eight in 

 chemistry or chemical technology, four in agricultural technology, 

 two uj)on commercial agricultural products (especially wine and 

 tobacco), and three upon beer brewing. Nine of the stations have 

 vegetation houses for experiments in vegetable physiology, nine haA^e 

 experimental fields, seven have feeding stalls for experiuiental pur- 

 poses, four have experimental gardens, two have special arrangements 

 lor animals under experiment (Haustiergarten), two are equipped 

 with Pettenkofer s respinition apparatus, and one with a horse dyna- 

 mometer. 



The German stations are like ours in the general character of their 

 work, and in the fact of their connection with educational institutions, 

 but since the latter institutions are under the control of the govern- 

 ment, which also supplies a large amount of the revenues of the sta- 

 tions and appoints many of their officers, the stations are more directly 

 subject to governmental supervision than ours. It should be observed 



