REVIEW OF STATION WORK FOR TWENTY- 
FIVE YEARS. 
THE STATION: ITS HISTORY AND WORK. 
W. H. JORDAN. 
The experiment station movement, which is now worldwide, had 
its origin in Germany about the middle of the last century., In 
1851 a station was established at Mockern, Saxony, under the 
direction of Dr. Emil Wolff, and within a decade several others 
were organized on German soil. 
Outside of the United States there now exist about 800 stations 
or similar agencies. Since 1875 sixty such institutions have been 
organized in the United States, the larger number coming into 
existence directly following the passage of the Hatch Act in 1887. 
Since 1888, when their aggregate income was $710,000, and their 
total working force 369 persons, the stations of the United States 
have reached an income of over $2,000,000, with 950 administrative 
officers and scientific workers. In 1905 they issued 3,000,000 copies 
of printed matter. 
These stations are a direct outcome of the rise of scientific knowl- 
edge and are an organized means for increasing this knowledge and 
of bringing it into helpful relations to the art of agriculture. At 
the present time their assistance is invoked in almost every known 
agricultural problem, and evidently they have become a permanent 
and essential factor in the guidance of farm practice. 
The New York Agricultural Experiment Station was the sixth 
one to be organized in the United States, probably the fourth to 
be established through legislative action and direct State aid. It 
would be difficult to trace out all the individuals and organizations 
that were active in securing the establishment of this Station and 
to assign to them the part each played in accomplishing the result. 
Such an attempt would almost certainly fail of mentioning many 
persons who actively assisted in this progressive move. Of or- 
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