EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XX. Novp:mber, 1903. No. 3. 



The need of increased funds for the further development and 

 extension of the experiment stations is brought out in the current 

 report of the Director of this Office. The successful extension of 

 their work in tlie case of a few stations, with the aid of special appro- 

 priations from the States, is cited as illustrating the possibilities for 

 enlarging the scope of the stations' work and the widespread benefits 

 to agriculture which may result. 



The States have done much toward suppl3nng the stations with suit- 

 able buildings and other facilities. This is in accordance with the 

 intent of the Hatch Act. A number of States have gone further and 

 have made appropriations for current expenses or for carrying on 

 special lines of investigation. Notable instances of this during the 

 past year are appropriations b}" the California legislature of $5,000 

 for the establishment of a poultry station and $3,000 for viticultural 

 investigations; by the Illinois legislature of $25,000 for live-stock 

 investigations, $25,000 for soil investigations, $10,000 for corn inves- 

 tigations, $10,000 for horticulture, and $15,000 for dairying — a total 

 of $85,000 per annum; by the Wisconsin legislature of $1,500 annually 

 for two years for tobacco investigations and $2,500 annuall}^ for cran- 

 berry investigations, $10,000 for the purchase of live stock, and a like 

 sum for additional farm lands; in Hawaii, $16,800 in aid of the Fed- 

 eral station for two years; in Missouri, a special appropriation of 

 $10,000 for the station and large college appropriations in which the 

 station will share; in Tennessee, $10,000 for the purchase of addi- 

 tional farm lands and $600 for cooperative experiments with field 

 crops and fertilizers on the type soils of the State; and in Utah, 

 $11,650 for station equipment and maintenance. 



A number of States have also made special appropriations for sub- 

 stations, several of which are new. For example, Kansas appropri- 

 ated $32,550 for the equipment and maintenance of the new Fort Haj's 

 Substation; Nebraska, $15,000 for the establishment and maintenance 

 for two 3'ears of a substation for the semiarid region in the western 

 part of the State; North Dakota, $5,000 for a substation to l)e located 

 at Edgeley; and Utah, $12,500 for the establishment and maintenance 



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